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Can critics and artists be friends?

  • Changes to the Art blog

    Starting from today, we're revamping our art blogging at the Guardian ...

  • What have you always wanted to ask, but were afraid to?

    For this Sunday's Observer Review, we came up with 50 questions to ask about the arts. Have we left any out?

  • Let's be professional about this

    The debate: Artists and critics don't have to like each other, but it helps if they can co-exist in an atmosphere of mutual honesty and respect.

  • Cocaine nights with Nicholson? It never happens to me

    The debate: Should I be friends with the film stars I write about? Well I'm hardly partying with Jack every night, although Helen Mirren did once grab at my crotch.

  • Friendship can only end in tears

    The debate: In politics, as in the art world, friendship is a pretty elastic word and one should keep one's distance.

  • Rocky relationships

    The debate: Nevermind whether musicians and journalists should be friends, these days they're more like adversaries.

  • Up close and personal

    The debate: as a dance critic it's hard to remain a detached observer when you are constantly rubbing shoulders with the people you write about.

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