John Berger on Professional AmateursJohn Bergerartreview.com17 September 2025From 1952: The legendary critic ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work
John Berger on the Royal Academy Summer ShowJohn Bergerartreview.com02 August 2022From 1957: the art critic imagines a not-so-Platonic dialogue debating the exhibition’s merits
John Berger on What the West Can Learn from Indonesian ArtJohn BergerArtReview22 July 2022From 1952: the art critic muses about the lessons we can learn from art created in the context of another culture and another place
The Disastrous Relation Between Art and Property: John Berger, ‘A Moral’John BergerArtReview04 February 2021‘If he had failed to discover a Rembrandt, he could at least discover how to be generous again’
John Berger: ‘I Believe that Finally the Art Critic Will Be Unnecessary’John Berger05 January 2017Critics Credo: John Berger on the nature of ‘public’ criticism