What It Means to Write About Art (Jarrett Earnest, Adrian Searle, Farah Nayeri, Georgina Adam) by Whitechapel Gallery published on 2019-04-15T14:27:09Z In the last fifty years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced in newspapers, magazines, and online, and has become the subject of debate by readers, writers, and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft, What it Means to Write About Art offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. Coinciding with its launch in the UK, Jarrett Earnest turns towards the status of art criticism in the Britain. On 7 February 2019 when this talk was recorded, he was joined in conversation by writers and critics Adrian Searle, Farah Nayeri and Georgina Adam, in a discussion that continued to assemble one of the most comprehensive portraits of art criticism, as told by the leading writers of our time. https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/what-it-means-to-write-about-art/ Genre Art