Walter Robinson, Exuberant Art-World Participant and Observer, Dies at 74
A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of ...
Hilton Als Is a Critic Who Curates, or Is It the Other Way Around?
The Pulitzer-prize winning writer and essayist talks about his love of art and how he reconciles two challenging roles.
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‘Out of the Picture’ documentary explores decline of art criticism in America
These are things that are the antithesis of what a thoughtful art critic does.” These changes coincide with a fundamental shift in not just who is making art, but how we view and derive meaning ...
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Walter Robinson, sharp-eyed painter and critic, has died, aged 74
In 1972, he enrolled in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program as an art critic. Around the same time, he began editing the art journal Art-Rite, a periodical published ...
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American Traditions: A Taste for Folk Art
The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down ... and who did not even know that they were producing art.” In the 1940s, art critic and collector Jean Lipman pointed to folk ...
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Hilton Als
Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, “The Women,” was published in 1996. His book “White Girls,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle ...