Objectif 83/2. Cine-Ups Apart

Criticism is going to leave the pages of important newspapers. It will remain just magazines that few people read, and just tabloids, where the critic is like a dog in a church. It will remain degree's thesis and books written to get credits, win a contest or take a place as teacher. Nothing really interesting. How can a critic be trained, where can he teach, who can give him money to live and the permission of writing or hopefully not writing anything? The only critic who can survive is the one able to get going into the mainstream, to upgrade himself and think on demand as well as other people do: friends, customers, associates. It's plenty of such critics, especially in musical, spectacular and (ex) visual arts. But a critic who is preeminent, independent, followed and also maestro, is far to be even pragmatically proposed by now. Nowadays the artists (millions of artists) are audience and judge of themselves, they do not need to delegate anyone. The artists can give themselves -finally!- a self-government: the first and the only one in the History to have good chances to be successful. (Eugenio Montale, Quaderni milanesi, n.1, 1960)