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 ...

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Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, married since 1992, are arguably the most powerful couple in contemporary art criticism. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival “I’ve known Jerry and ...

In 1962, in a remarkably prescient essay titled “How Art Writing Earns Its Bad Name,” the critic Clement Greenberg indicted contemporary art criticism for indulging in “a fatality of misinterpretation ...

This is the second part of a two-part essay. Read the first part, here. Towards the end of Sean Tatol’s “Negative Criticism,” there’s a curious, even startling turn. Unexpectedly, the essay shifts ...

Modernity after postmodernity / Néstor Garcia Canclini -- Strategies of modernity in Latin America / Andrea Giunta -- The void and the dialogue in the Western hemisphere / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Populist ...

They said it in the nineties, said it in the aughts, and say it again today: Art criticism is in crisis! They say it because full-time art criticism jobs in legacy media have become scarce; negative ...

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 ...