Sean Tatol is an art critic based in New York City. He writes primarily on his website, The Manhattan Art Review. The Manhattan Art Review favors short-form reviews of art exhibitions with a five-star rating system, prioritizing strong and potentially divisive opinions in contradiction to the polite conventions of mainstream art writing. By this approach he aims to emphasize the importance of judgment in art criticism, in the hopes of fostering a functional arts discourse that welcomes disagreement, debate, and renewed attempts to grapple with the complexities of art.