Introduction; 1: Crisis what Crisis? Reports of the death of art criticism have been greatly exaggerated; 2: Judgement Calls: on value judgement; 3: Theories of Relativity: cultural relativism and its discontents; 4: Critical Distance: the myth of; 5 Criticism and Creativity: on the relationship between art and criticism, artists as critics; 6: The Art of Describing; 7: Politics Schmolitics: all criticism is political, discuss; 8: Markets and Media: promotion v criticism; 9: In the Belly of the Beast: the embedded critic; 10: The Curse fo Academe: on the academicisation of critical discourse; 11: Other voices and the Voice of the Other: the enrichment of critical discourse as voices formerly on the margins move to the centre; 12: Frontline Art History? on the relationship between art history and criticism; Conclusion
