Making a difference

NOW WE ARE FIVE. THE MAGAZINE was launched in November 2019. Since then there have been two general elections, four prime ministers and three Tory leadership contests. Our focus, happily, has never been on anything as ephemeral as just politics however. Life is art, and as we said when we launched, the point of criticising it was to appreciate it still more fully and honestly. In our pages this month Pierre d’Alancaisez charts the lot of the modern art critic. The lack of courage and self-respect, and even basic belief in their own purpose, is self-evident for far too many members of the critical fraternity. But above all else — beyond even the churlish or ignorant or fearful rejection of criticism by its subjects — what is on display here is…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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