Thanks ...looks good
Any alive and ticking art critics you respect?
Robert Hughes is the first name that comes to mind. I used to like his reviews in Time (when my husband "let" me read it; we only subscribed decades ago). He's also written some very good books: American Visions on American Art that I use as a textbook for that class. He's also written a recent book on Goya that I haven't read yet.
There are some blogs with some interesting writing about art; John Haber isn't bad. I'll have to keep my eye out and share other critics' names with you as they come to me.
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Not in my life time - and I'm a great grandmother.
The only thing I saw at the Guggenheim that I liked was the Guggenheim - Frank Lloyd Wright's laugh on NYC.
From the time they, in essence, buried Bougeureau and his contemporaries for the modern "artists" - things were bad for the realist/traditionalist. The critics reigned supreme and the people didn't know if they like a piece until they got the aye or nay from the critic.
Norman Rockwell's unpublished fine art paintings could hang with the best of the Old Master's but it was the wrong era - so he "illustrated."
Things are slowly turning and once again the traditional is coming back. That's good for me - I could never paint bad enough for the modern field. ;o)
Does Tom Wolfe count? I thoroughly enjoyed The Painted Word.