Fine Print: Critical Mess (Critics on Criticism)

Teamwork (from “Credentials”)
© Tim Davis

Nicola directs us to an excellent, and seemingly relevant, WPS1: Art Radio podcast. The program features a reading and discussion on writer and critic Raphael Rubinstein’s anthology, Critical Mess (2006), on the debate over the role of contemporary art criticism.

Five of the thirteen critics included in the book were present for a panel discussion. The five includes Thomas McEvilley, founding director of the MFA in Art Criticism and Writing program at SVA, Katy Siegel, associate professor of Art History at Hunter College, contributing editor at Artforum, Nancy Princenthal, senior editor at Art In America, taught at the Visual Arts program at Princeton University and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor to Art In America and Art Press, and Peter Plagens, critic and painter, Art Critic for Newsweek 1989-2003, contributor to Artforum.

Listen the podcast here (1:10:46).