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Laurel Nakadate

Art critic Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the 2005 "Greater New York" show at P.S.1


Amelia Jones

Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961) is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/performance art, video art and Dadaism.

Ashot Melkonian

Art critic Shahen Khachatrian referred to Melkonian as "an artist of the generation of the 1960s that provided a new impetus to the development of Armenian art. Reality is a characteristic feature of Ashot's art".

Bettina Pousttchi

From 1999 to 2000, she attended the renowned Whitney Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Mary Kelly, Hal Foster, and Benjamin Buchloh were among her teachers.

Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art

The museum opened on April 11, 1956, and resulted from an initiative by sculptor and diplomat Pablo Curatella Manes and art critic Rafael Squirru (its first director).

Celia Winter-Irving

Celia Winter-Irving (1941 – 26 July 2009), was an Australian-born, Zimbabwean-based artist and art critic who wrote extensively on Zimbabwean art, especially Shona sculpture, when she lived in Harare from 1987–2008 .

Champfleury

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1820, Laon, Aisne – 6 December 1889, Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction.

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne (born 1688 in Lyon, died 1771 in Paris) was a French art critic of the 19th century.

Geoffrey Farmer

Whereas minimalist artists, such as Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, were said by art critic Michael Fried to theatricalize the gallery-going experience, Farmer uses the idioms of theatre and performance as analogies of the process of meaning construction.

Jacques Mesnil

Jean-Jacques Dwelshauvers, who went by the name of Jacques Mesnil (9 July 1872, Brussels - 14 November 1940, Montmaur-en-Diois) was a journalist, art critic, art historian and anarchist.

Joachim Koester

Hal Foster, writing in Artforum, has characterized his work as being "along the borders between documentary and fiction."

Marius Bercea

Bercea's upcoming show, Remains of Tomorrow, to be held at BlainSouthern in September 2011, will be curated by Jane Neal, a UK-based art critic, curator and visual arts consultant.

Mary A. Bell

She was in her sixties before her crayon artwork became known to the general public, thanks to patrons such as author Gertrude Stein, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, publicist Mark Lutz, critic Henry McBride and artist Florine Stettheimer.

Philip Guston

It received scathing reviews from most of the art establishment (notably from the New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer who, in an article entitled "A Mandarin pretending to be a Stumblebum" ridiculed Guston's new style).

Post-expressionism

Post-expressionism is a term coined by the German art critic Franz Roh to describe a variety of movements in the post-war art world which were influenced by expressionism but defined themselves through rejecting its aesthetic.

Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.

Șeitin

Ioan T. Morar (b. 1956), journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary and art critic, and civil society activist.

Silvano Levy

Silvano Levy is an academic and art critic specialising in surrealism, with emphasis on Conroy Maddox and Desmond Morris.


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Adam Pendleton

Writing of the performance The New York Times art critic Roslyn Sulcas described Mr. Pendleton as "the most charismatic performer I’ve seen on stage for a long time."

Alina Szapocznikow

The following year she moved to Paris where she became friends with the art critic and founder of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, Pierre Restany.

Architectural conservation

Two of the main proponents of preservation and conservation in the 19th century were art critic John Ruskin and artist William Morris.

Bardeche

Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), French essayist, literary and art critic, journalist

Benedict Read

Benedict William Read (born 1945) is an English art historian, the son of the eminent art critic and poet Sir Herbert Read.

Boyi

Feng Boyi (馮博一), an art critic born in 1960 in Beijing, China

Carmen Sasieta

The journalist and art critic Michael Mills put it best when he wrote “She is so meticulous that Carmen’s work is reminiscent of Henri Rousseau’s art.” Much has been written about her work in European and American Art magazines.

Eberhard Havekost

In 2005, art critic David Pagel described Havekost in the Los Angeles Times as "a promising painter so deeply indebted to Richter's version of abbreviated Photorealism that it appears he has not yet come into his own".

Eduard Puterbrot

«The artist viewed all the landscape of mountainous country surrounding him from the childhood as a huge theater stage. Dagestan nourished his art work constantly.» As evaluated by the art critic, Puterbrot had refuted the known formula by Rudyard Kipling (from The Ballad of East and West) "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet".

Emilio Prini

One of the early contributors to the Arte Povera movement living in Genoa in the 1960s, Prini became involved in shows such as "Arte povera - Im spazio" and "Collage 1" curated by Germano Celant, art critic credited with grouping the artists together.

Ernest Gimson

Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers".

Felipe Jesus Consalvos

Consalvos has been described by art critic Roberta Smith as a "self-starting modernist" who is "nearly on a par with folk-art greats like Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez and James Castle." According to Smith, Consalvos' work "belongs to the collage continuum from Hannah Höch to Barbara Kruger." (Smith 2006).

Frédéric Iriarte

1995 "Irrealism" with texts by Catherine Huber (intenedent at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris), Ilmar Laaban (poet, writer, art critic) and Lars Kollberg art critic / chief editor of Konsttidningen .

Frederick Stevens

Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), British art critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Frick Fine Arts Building

Miss Frick acquired the entire collection, however, after Lochoff's death, with the help of art critic Bernard Berenson.

Gary Faigin

Since 2001, Faigin has had a monthly spot as an art critic on the KUOW-FM radio station in Seattle.

George Anthony

George Wilfred Anthony (1810–1859), English landscape painter, art teacher and art critic

Gotthold

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic

Gustavo Ojeda

That same year he had another one-man show of pastels on paper titled "An Intimate Look" in the Rotunda gallery of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, DC, the small brochure for which boasted appreciations from the future head of Sotheby's Latin American art division, Giulio V. Blanc, and the Cuban poet and art critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa.

Heinz Berggruen

After working as an art critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, in 1939 he became an "Assistant director" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Independent Group

Key members at this stage included Paolozzi, the artist Richard Hamilton, surrealist and magazine art director Toni del Renzio, sculptor William Turnbull, the photographer Nigel Henderson and fine artist John McHale, along with the art critic Lawrence Alloway.

Jack Bush

He was a member of Painters Eleven, the group founded by William Ronald in 1953 to promote abstract painting in Canada, and was soon encouraged in his art by the American art critic Clement Greenberg.

John Hall Wheelock

In 1940, John Hall Wheelock married Phyllis E. DeKay, the daughter of Charles DeKay, poet and art critic.

Julian Leonard Street

He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show by Marcel Duchamp called Nude Descending a Staircase, resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory."

Kym Gyngell

His most notable characters included; "Leon" (Art critic who used to show up on talk shows and say the word "Crap"); and as characters sending up Kerry O'Brien (host of the ABC's The 7.30 Report) and John Laws (former 2UE radio broadcaster).

Lourdes Cirlot

Cirlot is the daughter of the Catalan poet and art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot and the sister of the scholar Victoria Cirlot.

Manuel Maples Arce

Manuel Maples Arce (Papantla, Veracruz, México 1898 - 1981) was a Mexican poet, writer, art critic, lawyer and diplomat, especially known as the founder of the Stridentism movement.

Manuel Mujica Láinez

In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic.

Mersad Berber

Kraków Grand Prix in 1997, an Ostend exhibition entitled "Between earth and heaven" and a recent one "Artist of the ideal" in Verona, selected by famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, confirmed Berber as one of the most significant contemporary artists.

Michael Gibson

Michael Francis Gibson (born 1929), art critic, art historian, and writer

Miše

Jerolim Miše (1890–1970), Croatian painter, teacher, and art critic

Modhir Ahmed

Together with partner artist/art critic Maria Vivero, he worked on a project about Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, which gave rise to the book Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, 40 years of painting, from himself, by himself, for himself, a Shaikh's retrospective.

Natalia Chernogolova

The following short article and interview by London art critic John Thaxter appeared as part of a brochure for her participation in the Landmark Arts Centre art fair and exhibition in Teddington, Greater London, in June 2009; it was written to provide buyers of her work with a brief career summary.

Nick de Angelis

The art critic Sidney Gilbert, in a review in the October issue of Artspeak, wrote, “Allan Stone mounts a sensational group show...

Pablo Bartholomew

Influenced by his father, Richard Bartholomew (1926–1985), an art critic and photographer, Bartholomew learned his first photography lessons at home.

Phoebe Nicholls

Most recently, she played the conniving art critic Rivera in the Royal National Theatre production of the Howard Barker drama, Scenes from an Execution.

Piss Christ

The art critic Lucy R. Lippard has presented a constructive case for the formal value of Serrano's Piss Christ, which she characterizes as mysterious and beautiful.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Some in the art world criticized the heirs' decision to sell all of the restituted paintings: specifically, New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman described the heirs as "cashing in," and thus transforming a "story about justice and redemption after the Holocaust" into "yet another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market."

Radi Nedelchev

In 1971 Nedelchev’s art was discovered for the first time outside of Bulgaria where, in Switzerland, art critic and writer Anatole Jakovsky awarded him a special prize in a worldwide competition for naive art.

Renato Pengo

The "Technological shock", according to the famous French art critic Pierre Restany, is the expression of a poetry that evolves in the spiritual and imaginary universe, pregnant with vibrations and cosmic energy in a space that becomes the immaterial void.

Robert van Gulik

As an art critic, he greatly admired the portrayal of the apes by such renowned painters as Yi Yuanji and Muqi Fachang.

Saya Woolfalk

In the New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter wrote of Woolfalk's piece, "Chimera," at Third Streaming Gallery, that "Ms. Woolfalk has created her own society of mythological beings called the Empathics, who not only blend racial and ethnic differences, but also dissolve the line between humans and plants. These sculptural figures, with their blossom heads, are fantastic but, as with all fundamentally spiritual art, a complex moral thread runs through the fantasy."

SCOPE Art Show

In a 2011 interview with art critic Brian Sherwin for FineArtViews, SCOPE Show Director Mollie White stated that SCOPE Art Show focuses on providing an international, innovative, and dynamic platform for contemporary art.

Steve Whitehead

Is the subject of a monograph book by the art critic of the Epoch Times, Michael Paraskos.

Suzie Higgie

Her sister is Jennifer Higgie, an Australian novelist, screenwriter, art critic and co-editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine, Frieze.

Thomas Crow

Thomas E. Crow (born 1948), American art historian and art critic

Torcuato di Tella Institute

Following its establishment, the di Tella art collection was transferred to the foundation, and Jorge Romero Brest hosted a free show at the National Museum of Fine Arts, which the leading local art critic directed.

Varia

Radu Varia (born 1940), Romanian art critic and art historian

Voyager, a Journey through Time and Water

The exhibition was curated by the art critic Koichi Watari (Documenta IX assistant curator, and curator of the Japanese pavilion of the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995) and by Japanese renewed contemporary poet and performer Gozo Yoshimasu.