商业环境之中当代艺术批评何为?何以为?

What to Do in Contemporary Art Criticism and How to Conduct It in Commercial Environment?

我们无不处于商业文化弥漫的社会环境之中。商业环境不能说是断送了艺术批评的前程,却无情地侵犯了艺术批评自身的独立性,使得艺术批评在商业环境中消散了原有的崇高与尊严,陷入前所未有的尴尬困境,这一点已成共识。正所谓"若批评不自由,则赞美无意义"。那么商业困境之中艺术批评何为?何以为?本文的目的正是以批评的立场重新看待这些问题。

All of us reside in a social environment pervading with commercial culture. We cannot say that commercial environment ruined the promising prospect of art criticism, but it relentlessly infringed the independence of art criticism and made it lose its intrinsic loftiness and dignity and fall into unprecedented embarrassing dilemma, which is unquestionable. “Compliment is meaningless when criticism is not free.”Then what to do in contemporary art criticism and how to conduct it in commercial dilemma? This article aims to reconsider these issues from a perspective of criticism.