Gertrude's Salon Discussion: What is art writing today?
Channel: Big Red & Shiny
Date: 06/04/2018

Gertrude's Salon Discussion: What is art writing today?
April 3, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts
Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts

Co-Hosted by Big Red & Shiny and the Boston Center for the Arts

Panel 1: What is art writing today?
"Art writing" is broadly defined as writing about the arts. But is it criticism, journalism, or research? What are its uses: assessment, promotion, or community-building? In 2018, arts writers are grappling with these questions in the midst of transforming platforms and audiences. Each publication has a different approach to geographical location, audience, and kinds of coverage. And each writer has a different relationship to the field as well, coming to their writing through the lens of a curator, artist, critic, art historian, journalist, or some combination. This panel will discuss the varied forms and purposes of art criticism with respect to their own arts writing practice. The intention of this discussion is to explore the way that contrasting publications deal with questions that concern the art world, large and small.

Moderator:
Leah Triplett Harrington, Senior Editor, Big Red and Shiny

Panelists:
Jameson Johnson, Founder and Editor in Chief of Boston Art Review
Jamilee Lacy, Director and Curator of Providence College Galleries and Collections
Cate McQuaid, Art Critic for the Boston Globe
Juan Obando, Aritst