Rachel Cooke on criticism: ‘What is the point of a critic if not to tell the truth?’

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The Observer critic on lone voices, Twitter pile-ons and how artists benefit from good and bad reviews

When Mary Beard’s new BBC documentary series Shock of the Nude began last month, I had high hopes. A new censoriousness is abroad both in the art world, and in our wider culture, and I hoped that she might have something to say about this: something clear, clever and non-prurient. But alas, it was not to be.

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