"art critique" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of analyzing and evaluating works of art. Example: The art critique praised the use of vibrant colors in the painting, but criticized the lack of depth in the composition.
What's more, she has demonstrated a certain knack for skewering the foibles of the contemporary art world in her pieces, mostly videotapes of performances that hilariously depict her lampooning the bloated lingo of much art critique; the egomaniacal ravings of artists who believe their own fawning press; and the orgiastic cult of museum worshipers.
Perry examines the words and language that have developed around art critique, including what he sees as the growing tendency to over-intellectualise the response to art.
Spiral Jetta is part travel essay and part art critique, but it's the former that Tribune reviewer Ann Fabian focuses on.
Cookie used to write a monthly art critique for Details Magazine.
Saltz's journey from fledgling art student to clout-having art critic was long he didn't put pen to art critique until his 40s but he exudes urgency.
Fong also asserts that the painting skill of portraying "animation through spirit consonance" or qiyun shendong an art critique associated with renowned Tang painters like Yan Liben, Zhou Fang, and Chen Hong was achieved by the anonymous Tang tomb painters.
Most of the artists she was getting to know then were immersed in conceptual art, in which theory trumped technique and art critiqued society.
They also recently announced "DIS Crit," a global contest for art students; the winner gets a "residency" at the contestant's local Starbucks, a $100 gift card to the coffee chain and art critiques over Skype with Lauren Cornell, a curator at the New Museum.
When I think about creating art, critiquing culture, and addressing life from a particular paradigm, I think I'm an intelligent individual, but there are those who have walked this life before me, who have thoughts and shared on these things.
Bennani, who grew up in Morocco, is a master when it comes to merging serious themes with tropes that speak to the zeitgeist, but unlike so much self-serious art critiquing society's obsession with the internet, Bennani's videos of Beyoncé head-butting a basketball, and sculptures with jiggling butt cheeks, are really freaking funny.
I don't think you accurately diagnose the difficulties many of your readers have with the arts critiques that appear in The New York Times.
