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The
Arts Newspaper 
The Art Newspaper
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Keep
in touch and up to date with the world of the
arts with The Arts Newspaper. A magazine and
on-line publication that prides itself on its
clear writing style and content. |
Detailed
Description
From the Editor
Before becoming editor of The Art Newspaper nine
years ago, I noticed that most writing about art
forces the subject into a ghetto: it takes it out
of the common currencies of life, language and value
judgements.
On the one hand, there are the professional art
historians, all theorising away in their distinct
areas, "Renaissance" people not talking
to "the Moderns", for example, let alone
to the non-professional. Art history, like most
disciplines, has fragmented as it has become more
specialised.
On the other hand, there are the critics. A very
few of these are good. They are sure of what they
like and can explain why in clear English; they
bring to art a broad culture and intellectual maturity.
But much art criticism is not worthy of its name,
since it is merely celebratory, explains little
if anything and is written in the most awful, pretentious
English.
The Art Newspaper (and the other newspapers in the
network) aims to remedy these obstacles to approaching
the world of art. We recognise that the art world
is part of ordinary life. For example, exhibitions
do not happen just because someone thinks it would
be nice to put a certain group of art together.
In reality, there is a complicated combination of
factors which includes high finance, international
diplomacy and the aspirations of museum directors.
We report on old art, new art, decorative art, the
commercial and the non-commercial world-but we are
very careful not to mix the last two up, as that
lead to puffery, another of the besetting sins of
art publications. We want to know and show where
the power lies in the art world.
Readership
Keen exhibition viewers, museum professionals, collectors,
artists, lawyers specialising in cultural property
issues, arts administrators, policemen, dealers
and auctioneers... You do not have to be learned
to read The Art Newspaper; you just have to be in
the game a little.
Anna Somers Cocks, Editor, The Art Newspaper
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