... likely musical staves--, I deliberated with Stephen McLaughlin on how many local art-writers also painted & actually exhibited? Jeffrey Makin; ... I mean 'explication', implying that the environment for the art's literal making is the fuller context)? Telling, ... & angles which have denoted City & its Sounds since ever art made virtue of the naturally traducing popular culture! ...

... to Metro, a paper not renowned for its understatement, this portrait of Gordon Brown's wife Sarah "would struggle to make it on to the fridge door if it was painted by a three-year old". I'm fairly confident that any three-year-old producing art like this would be acclaimed a genius. (The portrait is taken from Carla Bruni's website, and was not created by a toddler.)

... James Elkins’ tiny What Happened to Art Criticism? He sets out to decipher fascinating mystery ... effectively become. Elkins acknowledges that opposition to contemporary criticism has often stemmed from the reactionary right and from nostalgia for an imaginary past ... desirable things to have. But Elkins is haunted by phantom criticism for phantom audiences: Critics seldom know who reads ...

... to the ABC Book Show What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism Or maybe with all of these developments, we're entering a new phase of postmodernism, of ... ; and is exhibiting the rumblings of reinvention, serves as a harbinger for art itself? After all, when the market and everyone else has given up on you, that's often when things get interesting Martha Schwendener To read ...

... with the “overly objective” position regarding literary/art criticism is that it neglects the nature of truly great literature and art, which ... that question very willingly. This is either because they have already spoken, through the film, and they don’t want to build upon an art-work with banal talk about it; or because they are concerned about spilling the beans regarding what ...

I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl’s take on the present state of art criticism. This is by way of a practice run to ’scope’ the afore mentioned ‘art criticism now?’ agenda I love that word ’scope’ you’d think we were shooting bears..maybe we are…certainly foxes… His latest project