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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Russell Taylor with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Frenzy: the director had a phenomenal memory, supplying names and dates ...

Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older publications have been rebooted or even closed, and there is general awareness of ...

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 ...

Donald Judd (1928-1994) was an intelligent SoHo artist most noted for his unadorned rectangular sculptures that arrived during the mid-1960s and stayed alive in art exhibitions to his death. His ...

Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic some are calling the greatest of our time, has died. Hughes' imposing presence and unsparing criticism will be immediately recognizable to anyone who's seen his ...

Do we need art critics? If you ask Bob Hicks, executive editor of Oregon ArtsWatch, he says “critic” is a dumb word. As he argues in his recently published piece, the role of art criticism isn’t to be ...

Christopher Knight's last column will run on December 1. (photo by Ricardo DeAratanha, courtesy Los Angeles Times) Art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, ...

Attention, local artists: Would you like professional feedback on your work in the privacy of your own studio? Burlington City Arts is offering a Visiting Critic Program, designed to “connect Vermont ...