Art critic

  • Intern

Company Description

OpenArt is a community focusing on the enhancement of art galleries and exhibitions through improved collaboration between artists, organizations and publics. We curate exhibitions that are engaging, educational, and transformative. As an independent curatorial team, we offer expertise in the development of original art exhibitions and installations.

We work closely with arts and cultural organizations to conceptualize and develop unique exhibitions and installations specifically suited to our clients, and liaising with artists, galleries, and collectors.

Job Description

Duties of the art critic:

An art critic write reviews of individual art works or art exhibitions for the general public or for a more specialized audience. His or her articles are then published in newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and on art blogs. Art critics base their judgments on objective and rational elements. To do so they use a four-step method: describing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating.

Skills and qualifications of the art critic:

1. One of the art critic's main duties is to interpret the meaning of works of art. Typically an art critic will attend a cultural event, such as an exhibition, and will then write an article about it in an interesting and engaging way. By doing so, the art critic's objective is to popularize art to wide audience.
2. Naturally, art critics are well versed in art and art history. Their knowledge as well as their acute sense of observation serve another key skill: their ability to analyze and review piece of arts.
3. Being curious is essential as it is what drives them to explore new forms of art, meet new artists, attend exhibitions they normally wouldn't, to keep a fresh point of view.
4. They should also possess excellent writing skills to accurately express their views.

Qualifications

Skills required:
Blogging
Creative Writing
English Proficiency (Written)

Additional Information

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