SHREVEPORT, La. (Arklatex Today) - National art critic, Lauren Smart explains the importance of art criticism and her role in the upcoming exhibition, Critical Mass 12. Ahead of Critical Mass 12, ...

The reshuffling of the critical deck on the Times theatre desk wasn’t a singular event, but rather part of a broader move in the culture department there, affecting theatre, pop music, television and ...

Why would anyone want to be a critic? As I’ve admitted before, it wasn’t in my case an aspiration but a series of accidents that only in retrospect seem inevitable. When I was growing up, the most ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. What, exactly, is the point of architecture criticism? The word “criticism” is derived from the Greek term krinein, meaning to separate, to sift, ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...