To begin this discussion of reporting on the arts we need definitions. Then we need to expand the definitions. There are two basic forms of artistic comment, the criticism and the review. We will spend considerable time with the criticism, but our main concern is the review. Then there is something called an advance. It is basically reporting, as is so much of the copy in a typical daily newspaper, but it often includes opinion, which takes it out of the objective category. The advance appears before the arrival of the object of evaluation. The most common example is in TV where there are far more advance stories, many with critical comments, than reviews. More on the advance later in this chapter.