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Criticism

A warhol-style collage of memes, featuring celebrities with text on top that mocks the art world.

The Art Daddy Drama

Cultural criticism matters, but so do hurt feelings. When we let The Art Daddy loose on the state of arts journalism, the art world's most sensitive editors had words for us.
By The Editors
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The Death of the Full-Time Critic and What It Means for the Future of Art Writing

If we let art criticism become an exclusive club for the well-connected and well-funded, we risk creating an echo chamber that flatters power rather than interrogates it.
By The Art Daddy

Review: Imogen Binnie’s Much Awaited Reprint of ‘Nevada’ in the Golden Age of Trans Literature

The reprinting of Imogen Binnie's 2013 novel 'Nevada' is incredibly well timed as it coalesces with the golden era of trans lit it began.
By Grace Byron

Alfredo Jaar’s ‘The Temptation to Exist’ at Galerie Lelong Bit Off More Than It Could Chew

By Annie Levin

The Met Opera Takes on Doomed Love and Inquisition in ‘Don Carlos’

By Harry Rose

Tomás Saraceno and the Spider Experience at The Shed

By Emilie Murphy

Immersive Art Experiences in Las Vegas: Screensavers by Any Other Name

By Nicholas Russell

Real Men Read Nonfiction: Siri Hustvedt’s ‘Mothers, Fathers, & Others’

By Grace Byron

Fellini Wasn’t Brave Enough: ‘Nights of Cabiria’ and Fallen Women in Love

By Erin Taylor

Jorge de León Archives Our Temporal Times on Canvas

By Greta Rainbow

David Hockney’s New Piccadilly Circus Artwork is Getting Dragged Online

By Helen Holmes

Jerry Gogosian, Meme-Maker, Understands the Art World Better Than Almost Everyone

By Helen Holmes

Nifty Gateway Users Say NFTs are Being Stolen and Their Accounts are Being Hacked

By Helen Holmes

Sorry, Ariana Grande, but We Will Never Stop Blogging

By Helen Holmes
The next time you feel like criticizing someone, take a second to look inside yourself.

The Only Way to Be Positive in a Negative World? Don’t Kick Over the Beehive

By B.J. Mendelson
A positive leader sees what’s possible and then takes the next steps to rally and unite people to create it.

How Great Leaders Create and Share a Positive Vision

By Jon Gordon
Positive leaders have grit and find a way to navigate the roadblocks or run through them to move closer to their vision and goal.

Five Ways Successful Leaders Cultivate Grit and Achieve Long-Term Goals

By Jon Gordon
Still the most disturbing thing on the show.

‘Doesn’t Look Like Anything to Me’: Will ‘Westworld’ Get ‘Lost’ in Second Season?

By Brandon Katz
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new logo, designed by Wolff Olins.

Met Museum Releases More Images Following Backlash Over New Logo

By Alanna Martinez
The Pulitzer Prizes are now accepting submissions from online and print magazines in five categories. (Photo: Zimbio.com)

Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility in Three Journalism Categories

By John Bonazzo

Governors Ball 2015: Bad Sound & Bacchanalia Can’t Eclipse Bjork

By Eli Zeger
The life of an internet troll. (Photo: Bernard Goldbach/ Flickr)

How to Respond to Internet Rage

By Jeff Reifman
Potential Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Baltimore Riots Cloud O’Malley’s Future

By Liz Mair

Brian Wilson’s New Album Is Far From Essential Listening

By Tim Sommer
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