In a departure from the usual end-of-year roundups and top 10 lists, weinvited Peter Schjeldahl, Vince Aletti, Sarah Kent, and Matthew Collings torenew their Art Critics License—a document based on an actual US visaapplication recently completed by one of our editors. Click on an image below.

"Art Critics License Renewals" originally appeared in the December 2008 / January issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' December 2008 / January 2009 Table of Contents.