The work's object - the Lithuanian art critics discourse community. The subject is provoked by present-days discussions about the crisis of art criticism and trying to discuss the phenomenon of art criticism in social context. The aim of analysis is to name conventions and practices of discourse and to discuss power relations in the Lithuanian art scene. The analysis is done in three aspects. First, by the institutional aspect, the margins of art critics trajectories are defined. Second, by the thematic aspect, the subjects, which are conditioned by hierarchy of the objects of the field of reflection, are defined. Third, by the mental aspect, the effect of art criticism field margins is defined for the art critics texts.