As we transform from a culture of homogeneous authority (where people could talk about good with relative comfort) to one of jangling diversity, the vocabulary of critical distance and journalistic objectivity has lost ground to that of personal essay, confession, memoir and the performance art of punditry. Whether we respond to art in print or conversation, we face the challenge of constructing an “I” that reveals and questions itself as it goes – monitoring the place of perception in the formation of judgment – while remaining humble. In other words, the responder’s “I,” written or spoken, must never mistake itself for the subject, that is, the work of art being examined. - Todd London