Schjeldahl’s writing serves as a model for criticism in some ways and falls short in others ... One notices that the forty-five reviews he published between 2019 and 2022 focus predominantly on white artists ... Nevertheless, The Art of Dying offers clear lessons in style and craft ... At its best, Schjeldahl’s late prose models how criticism might resemble a brief intersection of two or many lives, as well as how critics can, despite social and political uncertainty, place wholehearted trust in the work that artists do.
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