The Responsibility of the Critic in the Art Field

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The arc of my writing as a critic has continually broadened, and that's what's kept me doing it. There is this sense that you are adding an opinion based on sort of, I think, the strength of your voice. But it's also a very weak foundation. And therefore, you yourself, there's a lot of it's not at hominem exactly. That's not, as he says, a bad thing.

Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times since 2011, writing about cities, public space, infrastructure, community development, public housing, equity, and the environment. He joins to talk about his extraordinary career in journalism and his new book, “The Intimate City: Walking New York.”