I read this one a long time ago but I thought he made a good points about critiques being well- not that useful?
The funny thing is that I sort of think critiques are useful in a way but I am not sure how....to be honest I dont think I have ever walked away from a critique thinking oh great here is some critisism and now I can improve my work based on that criticism. It is nice to get feedback though sometimes. I mean I tend to feel that in a critique I too kind of say stuff that I know really won't matter to the artist and sometimes I wonder why I bother. Participation marks? I guess maybe the act of critisizing can be useful moreso than being critisized.....just because it gets you to think about art where being critiqued feels a little more like either defending a work or just showing it off or sometimes just listening to ways in which it is crappy even though you already know. I had one teacher who I thought actually gave insightful critiques to her students---I always really looked forward to them because I found that she would find themes in peoples work that I had not seen or noticed previously. To be honest though I can't really remember critiques being anything that special except for in her class. Also, maybe I made thi clear---but she wasn't really "critical" she more kind of pointed out stregths and common themes that different people were working with which weren't immediately apparent to themselves.
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