- This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.
- In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
