Critical Failings, a post from the past
Continuing with the past posts here is my response to the Critical Failure: Visual Art event (the video for which was blogged yesterday).
Critical failure was chaired by Peter Mares and the guests were John McDonald (art critic Sydney Morning Herald), Naomi Cass (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography), Phip Murray (Editorial member of un Magazine), and Patrick McCaughey (former Director of the NGV). The discussion was lively and with considered input from each of the panellists. Below is a summary from my notes on the night.
Peter Mares began by presenting a case for the need, now more than ever, for visual art critics. The visual arts provoke aesthetic condemnation most commonly; we only hear the scandal in mainstream press. Mares cited the Bill Henson scandal.
