Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.
Peter SchjeldahlIt's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
Peter SchjeldahlArtists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.
Peter SchjeldahlThe dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.
Peter Schjeldahl