Guest Curator Avis Berman assembled documents from AAA's collections highlighting a spectrum of American critical perspectives from the early twentieth century to the present. The exhibition focused on the contributions of twelve American art critics: Walter Pach, Elizabeth McCausland, Forbes Watson, Clement Greenberg, Mary Fanton Roberts, Henry McBride, Kenyon Cox, Fairfield Porter, Arthur Danto, Thomas B. Hess, Lucy Lippard, and Ad Reinhardt. Enhancing the Archives' documents were art work and photographs lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Academy of Design, among others.

Painter and art critic Kenyon Cox (1856-1919). Photograph by Davis and Sanford, N.Y.

From left to right: Top row: Arthur Danto, New York City, 1922, photograph by Anne Hall, copyright Anne Hall, Arthur Danto papers; Elizabeth McCausland, ca. 1935, photograph by Berenice Abbott, Elizabeth McCausland papers. Second row: Ad Reinhardt in his studio, 1953, photo by Walter Rosenblum, Thomas Hess papers; Walter Pach, photo by Pach Bros., Walter Pach papers. Third row: Mary Fanton Roberts (painting of Roberts by Robert Henri, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art); Fairfield Porter, ca. 1950s, Fairfield Porter papers; Forbes Watson, 1917, Forbes Watson papers