J.T. Kirkland (Thinking About Art) has a plan for artists who want to be reviewed. (here, via Two Coats of Paint.)

It's 10-step version of do-it-yourself, or, more accurately, you do it for the other person and he/she does it for you. (Kirkland's program after the jump)

Kirkland goes on to ask what a review is. Is it a re-hashing of the gallery's press release? Is it a description of artwork in a show? Is it a blog post of images? Is it a thorough critical analysis of the exhibition, work and artist? Is it something else entirely?

It's engagement. Like artists, critics bring to to their job what they can. For artists, there is no rule, but for critics, one fits all: There has to be opinion, supported and enlarged. Here, from That's A Negative, what W.H. Auden thought of as its purpose.

1. Any person who identifies himself or herself as an artist may participate in the project.
2. When you agree to participate, you will submit one jpeg image (600 pixels at widest dimension, 72 dpi) of an artwork that is most representative of your studio practice.
3. Participating artists will be gathered and once a suitable number of participants is obtained, each artist will be randomly assigned to another artist.
4. For example, John Smith, Jane Doe and Bobby Thompson are participating artists. Jane might be assigned to John, John to Bobby, and Bobby to Jane.
5. The "assignment" is this: you will be given the digital image, title, medium, and size, of an artwork by the artist assigned to you. You will not be given the artist's name or any other information.
6. You will then be asked to write a 100-500 word "review" of the artwork you were provided. The "review" can be analytical, intuitive, emotional, instructive, etc. It can be positive or negative. It can be constructive or not. While it can be anything you, the writer, wants it to be, it must address the provided work.
7. The "review" will be returned to me and I will send it to the artist whose work it was written about. No names will be shared.
8. The artist will then have the option to respond to the review in a maximum of 100 words. They will also be asked to provide one more jpeg of their work, the selection of which is at their discretion.
9. Once the response and second jpeg have been received by me, I will publish the materials on Thinking About Art. Both the artist and reviewer will be named and links to their individual Web sites provided. The post will appear in this order: artist and reviewer introduction, first jpeg, "review," second jpeg, and then the brief, optional artist response.
10. By participating, you agree to have your work "reviewed" and to "review" another artist's work.