Sebastian Smee

The fine art of appreciation | 4 March 2006

issue 04 March 2006

  • Still Looking

    John Updike

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 222

John Updike is, among one or two other things, a model art critic. Observant, sympathetic and knowledgeable, he also writes at a useful remove from the polemics that rack today’s art world. His status as an honorary non-combatant in the contemporary art wars owes something to his literary fame, to be sure.

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