Summary: William Wood introduces a panel discussion with Tom Morton, John O’Brian, and Kristina Lee Podesva with a response to and contextualization of the increasing presence of (and growing resistance to) judgment in contemporary art writing. This talk was originally presented on February 28, 2009, as part of Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, a forum and month long speaker series organized with Artspeak. William Wood is an art historian and critic.