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 ...

While art history and art criticism overlap as disciplines, we usually tend to think of the latter as writing the first draft of the former. This isn’t to say that art critics don’t write about ...

General view of Baltimore street before Gaia’s intervention (via Google Streetview) (click to enlarge) The scroll (click to enlarge) Coming across a work by Gaia on the street is a special experience.

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 ...

The study of art history, theory and criticism is an expansive field that interrogates the multilayered relationship between artworks, their contexts and the evaluative practices that inform their ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

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 ...

What happens when writers like Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz become a thing of the past? David X Prutting/BFA.com At both legacy newspapers and specialized art magazines, staff cuts and editorial ...