Why Art Criticism Matters -- Or Does It?

While enjoying our daily brain-breakfast, courtesy of WNYC this morning, we heard something of particular note. According to art critic Deborah Solomon, there are only eight, full-time, art critics employed by newspapers in the United States today. Eight. And that's the total after the city of Chicago's last full-time critic was laid off by Time Out. That, we think, is a very sad state of affairs. In our dream world, we like to think that the age of Internet media is about making more good thing...