Is art criticism now too positive? Are “negative reviews” what the doctor ordered to shake a sleepy scene awake? Whatever you think about Tatol’s opinions—and people have a lot of opinions about Tatol ...

The agenda for a 1979 general meeting of the American section of the International Association of Art Critics, signed by then-president John Perreault, includes reference to a “heated and lively ...

On discussing art criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago and encountering the critic Dave Hickey. Discussions of art criticism never seem to go very well. Perhaps that’s because there is no general ...

Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it and on what devices is rapidly, constantly evolving. If art magazines ...

That artists can often have a distinctive old age style is a very familiar claim.. When the body ages, and the mind draws upon temporally distant experience, it’s almost inevitable that a painter will ...

It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway. Whether or not the dance analogy captures ...

Exercising judgment is understood to mean deploying it sensibly, or to one’s benefit. It could also mean the maintenance of its health. As a body requires exercise to stay fit, judgment needs to be ...

Art criticism is an interdisciplinary field that interrogates the manifold dimensions of artistic practice, ranging from historical and cultural context to formal and aesthetic evaluation. It involves ...

Over at The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman profiles Franco Moretti, who does work in “computational criticism,” and asks: Should literary criticism be an art or a science? A surprising amount depends on ...