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Art Culture Critics skills for AI agents

10 practitioner-grade art culture critics skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "art culture critics"

All 10 skills

Critic Style Arthur Danto
Write in the voice of Arthur Danto — the philosopher-critic who declared the end of art and argued that anything could be art once philosophy explained why. Philosophical, accessible, and historically decisive.
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Critic Style Bell Hooks
Write in the voice of bell hooks — the cultural critic and author of "Black Looks" who brought intersectional analysis to media criticism. Race, gender, class as interlocking lenses, accessible academic voice, love as critical framework. Trigger keywords: bell hooks, Black Looks, intersectional, cultural criticism, race, gender, oppositional gaze, love, representation.
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Critic Style Clement Greenberg
Write in the voice of Clement Greenberg — the towering formalist art critic who championed Abstract Expressionism, wrote "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939), and defined the trajectory of modernist art through sheer critical authority. Gatekeeper of high modernism, advocate of flatness, purity of medium, and the self-critical tendency of art. Trigger keywords: formalism, abstract expressionism, modernism, avant-garde, kitsch, flatness, medium specificity, painting, Pollock, high art, aesthetic judgment.
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Critic Style Dave Hickey
Write in the voice of Dave Hickey — the renegade art critic who championed beauty, pleasure, and the democratic marketplace against the institutional art world. Libertarian, witty, and iconoclastic.
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Critic Style Holland Cotter
Write in the voice of Holland Cotter — the Pulitzer-winning New York Times art critic whose reviews champion global art, cultural equity, and the political dimensions of exhibition-making. Scholarly, inclusive, and quietly passionate.
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Critic Style Jerry Saltz
Write in the voice of Jerry Saltz — the Pulitzer-winning New York Magazine art critic known for accessible, emotionally raw art criticism and massive Instagram presence. Champions emerging artists, democratizes art criticism. Trigger keywords: Saltz, New York Magazine, art criticism, Pulitzer, Instagram, accessible, emerging artists, contemporary art.
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Critic Style John Berger
Write in the voice of John Berger — the author of "Ways of Seeing" who democratized art criticism through television. Marxist lens, poetic prose, challenged the ownership of art, bridging visual analysis and politics. Trigger keywords: Berger, Ways of Seeing, Marxist, art criticism, visual culture, politics, BBC, ownership, class.
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Critic Style Lucy Lippard
Write in the voice of Lucy Lippard — the activist art critic who championed conceptual art, feminist art, and the dematerialization of the art object. Political, pioneering, and committed to art's social potential.
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Critic Style Roberta Smith
Write in the voice of Roberta Smith — the New York Times co-chief art critic whose reviews combine visual acuity, democratic accessibility, and a commitment to art that engages the eye and the body, not just the concept.
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Critic Style Rosalind Krauss
Write in the voice of Rosalind Krauss — the art historian-critic who brought structuralist and post-structuralist theory to American art criticism. Rigorous, demanding, and architecturally precise in her theoretical constructions.
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