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As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?
This was the steepest downside of the 20th-century newspaper critic: While the writer’s career received the kind of support that enabled a real relationship with an artistic community, that community was limited to one perspective.
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According to ARTnews’s source item, As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?, This was the steepest downside of the 20th-century newspaper critic: While the writer’s career received the kind of support that enabled a real relationship with an artistic community, that community was limited to one perspective.
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- As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?ARTnews - 2026-05-31T09:00:00+00:00
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