What’s with these kids today?

Michael Fallon, from The Chronicle of Artistic Failure, has an interesting post at mnartists.org about the new generation of artists emerging and their reactions to critics and to just about anything that questions their artistic authority.
I thought his observations were interesting, albeit slightly inflammatory at times:
“First, it was odd that these students from blink-and-miss-it Carleton [...]

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Good vibrations? Certainly not Peter Conrad’s!

I know this is not an art critic’s blog, but this article at The Guardian upset me enough to have to comment on it.
In it, Peter Conrad sets to more or less smash the books of former collaborators and friends Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim. What bothers me is not that he dislikes the books. [...]

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Fear should not lead strategies

Perhaps it’s been a synchronistic event, but in the past couple of days I’ve come across several articles and blogs that deal with “the death of the art and cultural critic”.
Art critic Jonathan Jones at The Guardian wrote about it in a blog post:

“What has passed away is a certain kind of revered and influential [...]

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