The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism

The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism

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 reviews are harder to come by; and nobody reads reviews anymore, now that the internet has turned every Jack, Jill, and Joe into a casual critic. Countless think pieces and books have pronounced art criticism a near-extinct genre. They call it a prac…