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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older publications have been rebooted or even closed, and there is general awareness of ...

This summer, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts put together an exhibit celebrating artists who have the urge to keep things on the little side. "Tiny but Mighty" brought together pieces of ...

Art criticism constitutes a systematic practice of interpreting, contextualising and evaluating visual and material culture. Its lineage extends from connoisseurship and formal analysis to critical ...