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Roberta Smith with Jarrett Earnest
Jarrett Earnest | The Brooklyn Rail | 1st March 2017
Longish but interesting. Roberta Smith explains why the job of an art critic is challenging. “You have to be disinterested in your own responses, no matter what they are. Saying exactly what you think is really hard. There is a way to let your eye just be, and you follow it. It is just amazing to me how hard it is to see, and how little you see.”