MORE ON CRITICISM

posted by James Reel

Violist-blogger Charles Noble provides some interesting statistics linking newspaper and orchestral demographics, and critic Justin Davidson, one of the few who does still have a job in the mainstream media, offers a solution to the decline in professional arts criticism in American communities: online arts bulletins funded by consortia of local arts organizations. I’m not sure how a critic’s editorial independence would figure into this—the critic would be paid, indirectly, by the very institutions being reviewed—but it’s worth some thought.