My degree work. An essay. I'd like to discuss the theme of my degree work. It's called "Art criticism polemic in Mass Media and 'The world of art' magazine". The story of my work begins when I was on the second year of the University. I attended history of arts lectures. And the teacher forced us to visit exhibitions to pass his exam in an excellent mark. So, it was like a motivation! I've visited a lot of galleries and museums, remembered all painters and arts directions. The exam was passed as I expected. Lectures has gone but during this time I was falling in love with art. Then I became to learn more and more about art and even wrote a degree work about this time of culture and past time. In the work I've reflected culture events which had happened from 19 to 20 century. In particular about "The world of Art" magazine and preservation of its traditions at this time. "The world of Art" magazine has been published from 1899 to 1904 by Alexander Benua (Russian artist and art critic). It was the first magazine about art and artist (in general). Many artists and art critics wanted to publish in this magazine because it has been so popular at that time. Distinctive feature is Benua's editors wrote articles and published pics to make young and really creative artists be popular and outstanding. Benua's editors rejected "old art". They aspired to fine art, contemporary art. It's the first part of my degree work. In the second part I research up-to-date art magazines, polemic and discussion of new artists, prices for painting. There is two tapes of people: who likes contemporary art and who doesn't (even hates!). To sum up, I agree with that this time is a decline of culture.