The paper provides a comparative analysis of Silvia Burini’s review and Grisha
Bruskin artist’s statement, both written in relation to the same event: Bruskin’s 2015 exhibition An Archaeologist’s Collection. The paper seeks to identify cognitive and discursive dimensions of these two texts of different genres of art discourse. It is argued that the authorship factor, i. e. whether the author of the text is an internal or external expert, manifests itself in various ways, including the style, structure, and cognitive density of the text.