Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an ...

As a critic myself, I get it. Most art exhibitions aren't amazing. I personally think about gallery-going the way I do thrifting, even though I don't buy art because it's much more expensive than used ...

Last Sunday's article in the L.A. Times laments over the decline of influence that art critics -- "once almighty arbiters of American taste" -- have in shaping American cultural life today. It's ...

That artists can often have a distinctive old age style is a very familiar claim.. When the body ages, and the mind draws upon temporally distant experience, it’s almost inevitable that a painter will ...

The big narrative in the art world over the last decade has been the market. Money, as you may have heard, changes everything. But now that the market is marching in lockstep with the global recession ...

Art criticism is an interdisciplinary field that interrogates the manifold dimensions of artistic practice, ranging from historical and cultural context to formal and aesthetic evaluation. It involves ...

General view of Baltimore street before Gaia’s intervention (via Google Streetview) (click to enlarge) The scroll (click to enlarge) Coming across a work by Gaia on the street is a special experience.

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Bunny Smedley of the Social Affairs Unit weblog has written an epic (as both blog posts and book reviews go) review of The Rape of the Masters, of which she says: Compact, trenchant and often very ...