From 2005: If you can write like Mencken or Shaw or Thomson, and if you have a personality as interesting as theirs, you don't have to be "right" in order to be taken seriously as a critic. You are, in fact, an artist"a personal essayist whose subject matter is art. Read the whole thing here. Continue reading Lookback: is criticism art? at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM on November 10, 2020