What Is the Role of the Digital-Age Arts Critic? Superscript Conference Hopes For Answers

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by: Chris Ip | CJR

The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, writing in 2010 about the shrinking ranks of arts critics, said that “the surviving full-time classical music, dance, and even literary critics might have trouble filling out a bridge game.” His has been just one voice in a chorus of lamentations. Theater critic Jeremy Gerard said in January that a flattering Times or New York Magazine review can no longer save a good Broadway show, while jazz writer Ted Gioia bemoaned last year that music publications write more about pop stars’ fashion choices than their musical proficiency.

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