arts-criticism
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.
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.
Read MoreThe hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn’t been invited to the Pulitzer Prize’s centennial party.
Read MoreThe loss of arts criticism means severe economic challenges for arts and culture down the food chain.
Read MoreThe Globe tells us that we will be gaining compelling stories. What are we losing? Invitations to think seriously about artistic accomplishment and failure.
Read MoreA.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
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Critical Condition: Why Be Negative? Don’t Ask “The New York Times”
If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.
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