The Walking Dead: Do Traditional Art Critics Have a Future?

With armchair art and theatre critics proliferating online, with media cutbacks reducing the number of those who critique for a living, and with celebrity news trumping cultural coverage, are traditional art critics less--or more--relevant than they once were? Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic, The New York Times; Robert Cushman, theatre art critic, The National Post; Peter Schjeldahl, art critic, The New Yorker; and moderator Sara Angel, visual arts journalist and Trudeau Doctoral Scholar at the University of Toronto's Department of Art, explored the state of art criticism.