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Critics

The people writing about the work

Anyone can review a piece here. A critic is someone who does it often enough to build a record — and once they have, an artist can commission them for a considered read of their own work. Commissioned critiques are always labelled as commissioned, on the work itself.

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Photograph Mike Tinnion / Unsplash

How this works

A record you can check, not a score

Reputation here is arithmetic on published work, not a badge anyone is given or sold.

  • Counted from what was published

    The figures on this page are counted from reviews that were actually published. Demonstration content is excluded from every count, so seeded material can never inflate a reputation an artist is then asked to pay for.

  • Commissions open only after 10 reviews

    That threshold is checked on our side when the setting is switched on, not merely used to hide a button.

  • Commissioned work says so

    When a critic who takes commissions writes about a work, the review carries a “commissioned” label whether or not that particular piece was paid for. Erring toward disclosure is the only version of this that readers can trust.