"The cause of much bad art-writing is not so much pretentiousness, as is commonly suspected, but a lack of training."

If there’s one single best reason to learn to write well about art, it’s because good art deserves it. And sharp art-writing can make art-viewing all the better.

In a project called Fax Back the British artists’ collective BANK returned abysmal press releases to the guilty galleries, complete with corrections and comments (‘Totally meaningless sentence. Well done!’).

"Aficionados and laypeople alike had grown wearily accustomed to the white-noise murmur of art-gibberish (which enlivened the ‘Pseud’s Corner’ section of magazines from Private Eye to Flash Art), and instinctively diverted their attention to the smart art-writers also at work."

I LIVE FOR THE ENERGY OF THIS BOOK.

Will post notes on this thread. Haha