arts-criticism
Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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Can anyone — with a straight face — argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?
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If you’re a fan of the podcast or the magazine, you know that Arts Fuse writers are sworn adversaries of the dreaded algorithm.
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.
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If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.
Read MoreThe publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.
Read MoreCritics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
Read MoreMy thought was that it would exciting to invite high school students from diverse backgrounds to become better educated about arts criticism.
Read MoreMany of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
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Arts Commentary: Arts Criticism — Stuck in the Bunker
Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.
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