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What is a Critic Now?
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. What is a critic now? From...
Art and The Public
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. Whatever its aesthetic or philosophical merits,...
Plantation Horror
Plantations, as we understand them, declined after Emancipation. But the plantation of the American South has endured in the cultural imagination because of its ability to relentlessly innovate. The Southern plantation—as a place, and as an idea—has become decoupled from its violent past, making it easier to commodify for public consumption.
The Criticism of Quality and the Quality of Criticism
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. The New York Times headline was...
Criticism and Theory
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. In the 1970s, as wave after...
The Role of Art Criticism in the Community
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. It was the scariest morning of...
Seriousness and Difficulty in Criticism
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. In criticism one is often being...
Virtual Vistas
This article was originally published in ART PAPERS May/June 2000, Vol. 24, issue 3. One of the hardest lessons...
Representing Blackness
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS March/April 2004, Vol 28, issue 2. The timing couldn’t be more opportune...
Is there a “post-Black” art?
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/December 2002, Vol 26, issue 6. As if illustrating a principle of...