The Dominance of the White Male Critic
Timely opinion piece in the New York Times makes mention of Arts.Black started and run by Jessica Lynne, the new judge for the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing!
“We need culture writers who see and think from places of difference and who are willing to take unpopular positions so that ideas can evolve or die…This work is happening in outlets like Hyperallergic, Arts.Black and Remezcla, and from writers like Lou Cornum, Gelare Khoshgozaran and Eva Yaa Asantewaa. And we can see the thirst for such conversations on social media. But Twitter and Instagram don’t pay their users. In a clickbait attention economy where more than half of visual arts critics make on average less than $20,000 per year from arts writing, the voices that are most needed are the least likely to emerge.”