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March 11, 2021
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October 14, 2020
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James Wood on How Criticism Works
Influential writer and literary critic James Wood is interviewed by Becca Rothfeld Continue reading
October 5, 2020
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Aesthetics for Distant Birds, Workshop #4: “Fiction and Criticism” [FULL VIDEO]
The full recording of our recent workshop Continue reading
May 25, 2020
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AFB’S TERMS OF ART #41: DISINTEREST(EDNESS)
“Now that I’m not in the heat of the moment, I think Gatorade actually tastes a little weird.” Continue reading
April 24, 2020
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AFB’S TERMS OF ART #25: CRITICISM
Now that increasing numbers of people are stuck at home and sheltering in place, I figured I’d do a little series. Every weekday for the duration of this intense period, I’ll post a short definition of some term in/related to … Continue reading
September 24, 2019
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What a Great Critic Does
What follows is a guest post by Antonia Peacocke. Art critics get a really bad rap. The stereotype of a critic is a haughty, pedantic grump who loves passing judgment on art—without being able to do anything creative themselves. According to … Continue reading
July 10, 2019
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Which Interpretation? Aesthetic Evaluation in the Gallery-museum
What follows is a guest post by Jennifer A. McMahon. Have you ever found yourself patiently listening to a range of interpretations of an artwork, wondering whether there was some objective way to negotiate the plethora of sometimes idiosyncratic and … Continue reading
May 18, 2019
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What Fandoms Can Teach Us About the Value of Plot Holes and the Badness of Bad Artists
What follows is a guest post by James Harold, Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College. Parts of this blog post draw from his article “The Value of Fictional Worlds (or, Why The Lord of the Rings is Worth Reading).” Critics and … Continue reading
February 20, 2018
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Bottom Rail on Top This Time: Politics, Myth, Culture and Afro-fantacism in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panter
What follows is a guest post by Charles Peterson (Oberlin College) I. As Walter Mosley observes in his essay “Black to the Future,” the genre(s) of science fiction/fantasy neé Afro-futurism speak clearly to the dissatisfied through their power to imagine … Continue reading
September 21, 2017
by Matt Strohl
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Against Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes was in the news this summer, as reports were made that the teams behind the Baywatch reboot and most recent Pirates of the Caribbean installment blame the critical aggregator for the films’ poor performance at the box office. … Continue reading
