Of course there is nothing absolute or Olympian about anyone’s writing, including mine, and readers should seek a varied critical diet. Thanks to the internet, such a diversity of opinion is available these days, so anyone interested in art ought to be contributing to the discourse, as you and many others already do.

My editors, however, would be nonplused to hear that my modus operandi is too covert, and not opinionated enough! They always seem to be asking me to dial the prose down, to more reader-friendly levels—which I try to do without neutering the content. And not every review can be a manifesto or esthetic experience; that is neither possible, given deadlines, nor desirable. I will cop to a preference for visual art that is visually interesting (old-school retinality), but I do try to keep an open mind should something new draw my interest.

DeWitt Cheng