"How I learned to look and listen"

Excellent and fascinating article by Jonathan Jones this week, in which he describes the "end of the art criticism" by the expert. As recently as 2006 he was, he says, writing with "an aggressive, cocksure, dismissive voice, determined to prove that my opinion was worth more than my readers" ... but "criticism in the age of social media has to be much more playful and giving"

Now he writes an almost daily blog for the Guardian (see my previous post). It is excellent, by the way. I have huge respect for Jones, I think he is one of the best around, and his change of attitude proves it. He says that his views are flexible because he writes frequently, and the format is informal. His writing and the discussions (which once even reached 500 responses to one post) comprise the text together.