Is Arts Criticism Dead?

“Blame it on Pablo Picasso. Anyone who took a college arts course knows that modernism began in 1907 with his painting Les Demoiselles D’Avignon. Implicit in modernism, as seen in Picasso’s use of flat perspective, non-Western art and the deconstruction of the human body, was a critique of art itself. From the death of art to the death of art criticism is a step that, amazingly, has taken a full century. The Internet is but the latest manifestation of modernism. And it follows that if in art anything goes — as opposed to the Academism that modernism rejected — the same is true for criticism. Everybody’s a critic. Blog it.”