This article presents the thoughts of several contemporary professional publishing critics concerning what they do when they criticize art. Their thoughts are especially offered to art teachers to add to their knowledge base about art criticism, a discipline that engenders strongly held beliefs and sometimes unfounded biases. Some of the critics disagree with each other, but despite occasional differences of opinion, critics generally agree about what it is they do when they criticize art. Their thoughts may be corrective to some notions of art criticism and are presented in this spirit. Implications for teaching art criticism are offered at the conclusion of the article.