Peter Schjeldahl. The Critic as Artist, in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde from oscar portal Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 36 min 93 sec
✓ Published: 07-Dec-2011

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New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl has been called “America’s most important living art critic,” and “the unacknowledged dean of a bastard profession.” But is it? Schjeldahl takes on the challenge in a lecture/speech/manifesto he spent the summer burnishing for prime time at The New School for the 2011 International Art Critics Association/USA Distinguished Lecture. Like Wilde, he champions beauty in an era when it has been debased. He privileges personal confession over theory as the