{"id":987,"date":"2009-08-31T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/8_responses_to_a_bad_review\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:31:31","slug":"8_responses_to_a_bad_review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/8_responses_to_a_bad_review.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight responses to a bad review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From painter Joanne Mattera, <a href=\"http:\/\/joannemattera.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/marketing-mondays-negative-review.html\">here<\/a>, including number one, which is, <i>Don&#8217;t Jump<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dontjump.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/dontjump.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/span><br \/>Small world department: Edward Winkleman <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/is-it-argue-worthy-open-thread.html\">opened a thread<\/a> this morning on the subject of dealing with bad reviews. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written my share, even though if I&#8217;ve freely chosen the artist (as opposed to being assigned), I&#8217;ve rarely picked someone whose work I find to be without consequence. <\/p>\n<p>A review is an engagement, an examination of the specifics of a response written to evoke response in others. Who wants to dance with the dead? Nothing will come of nothing. As Grace Paley noted, where there is real disagreement, there&#8217;s no point arguing.<\/p>\n<p>At worst, a review articulates the limits of a critic&#8217;s imagination. (I can&#8217;t see you.) A negative may be intended by critics as a prod, but it always serves as their mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From painter Joanne Mattera, here, including number one, which is, Don&#8217;t Jump! Small world department: Edward Winkleman opened a thread this morning on the subject of dealing with bad reviews. I&#8217;ve written my share, even though if I&#8217;ve freely chosen the artist (as opposed to being assigned), I&#8217;ve rarely picked someone whose work I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}