Provence talks to those behind in-house art magazines, to gauge the changing relationship the industry has with print. Art world versus art industry. It’s definitely an industry, not a world. Get the difference? Read what Lionel Bovier, director of MAMCO, Geneva, and Hauser & Wirth’s Randy Kennedy, have to say about their new, shiny magazines.

Criticism serves a multitude of functions within the sphere of art—from being a tool for evaluation, to an active co-producer. Some artists have had uneasy relationships with their critics, while others have embraced critique as an artistic discipline in its own right. Over the course of the summer, PROVENCE reached out to an array of artists and writers, asking what role criticism plays today. The following manuscript queries how the format of the contemporary review can be challenged.