Colin Lang

Independent scholar, critic and author, living in Berlin. He has also been editor of the German magazines Texte zur Kunst and Spike Art Magazine.

Articles

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The crisis of criticism

Complaints of an editor

Art criticism today has become reliant on the system its job is to criticize. With little alternative to institutional advertising, art magazines are unwilling to upset clients, while the boundary between criticism and commercial marketing is increasingly blurred.

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