The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that it is tapping one of its own, curator Douglas Druick, to be its next director, filling the position that been vacant since James Cuno departed in May of this year to become the head of Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Trust. Mr. Druick has been acting as director since the start of July. Read More
It’s a bit daunting to sit down and review What Happened to Art Criticism? , a slim book by James Elkins that has recently undergone a second printing by Prickly Paradigm Press. Not because Mr. Elkins considers art criticism “very nearly dead” as a literary discipline. (There isn’t a critic alive who hasn’t, at one Read More
Art Criticism in Crisis?
James Elkins Studies the Evidence
It’s a bit daunting to sit down and review What Happened to Art Criticism? , a slim book by James Elkins that has recently undergone a second printing by Prickly Paradigm Press. Not because Mr. Elkins considers art criticism “very nearly dead” as a literary Read More
The French artist Édouard Manet (1832-83) is often said to have been the first modernist painter-the father, as it were, of Impressionism and the great succession of avant-garde movements that followed in its wake. In fact, there’s just enough truth in the claim to render it plausible, even at this distance in time. But it Read More
