Why to I need to conform to Roberta Smith to get any credibility? I don’t understand. Is she the final word on what’s what? I also don’t understand what the issue with the Facebook page is. It’s there to try to attract readers and promote what we publish here. It’s not really a main attraction at all. So what’s the issue?

I’m the associate editor of the site, in case you missed that. If you don’t like the site you don’t have to read it. But you also don’t have to mischaracterize it with hyperbole and straw men. Most of the stuff on here isn’t especially academic and there’s very little mention of critical theory. This review just kind of mentions Hegel without really taking that reference anywhere.

So now that I’ve brought my interest to your attention, do you want to say why you’re so committed to shitting on something with really kind of over-the-top insults that don’t bear any relation to the thing you’re critiquing?

Thanks for reading!

Noah – why are you so committed to ‘protecting’ this one really bad review. I mean, let’s be honest, go to Artcritical’s Facbook page – Noah needs to align himself with Roberta Smith to get ANY credibility. The review sucked. Most of the crap aon Artcritical sucks. Please.

By “a zillion” paragraphs, do you mean the first half of the first paragraph and the first half of the second paragraph? Because that’s the only two places where that stuff is found since it’s just a rhetorical frame.

What does that mean? Why are you picking on the writer? She’s just setting up a frame for her essay and you’ve turned it into some kind of fisticuffs. No, you don’t need knowledge about art theory to write about art. Hegel isn’t art theory. There’s nothing wrong with incorporating philosophy into a review. You can tell that the author is a her by her name. I suggest you not blow your top imagining what kind of conversations people do or don’t get into between now and your next comment.

Do we still require some knowledge on art theory to write about art? I suggest the writer to have more conversations about art until his/her next review.”