Terry Richardson Isn't Much Of An Artist, Art Critics Say

Art Critics Rip Terry Richardson: 'Not An Artist'
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Terry Richardson attends a special screening of "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" at the Sunshine Landmark Theater on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

“The question ‘Is Terry Richardson a good artist?’ assumes that he is an artist at all, which he is not,” she said, adding that she couldn’t think of any Richardson work in museum collections and said that even the galleries that show him “are places that flirt with fashion and celebrity” and “generally aren’t part of the scholarship/criticism/connoisseurship conversation.”

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