Hrag Vartanian

Why hasn’t art criticism focused on Flickr? Can we start critiquing Flickr sets of exhibitions or public art the same way we criticize exhibitions? What’s holding us back?

Artists don’t have a monopoly on how their work can be perceived. In fact, Flickr can give us multiple perceptions of the same thing. A Flickr set vs a Flickr pool of Olafur’s disappointing NY fountains are vastly different things..