Sentences with phrase «arts critic»

Carolina A. Miranda is a freelance writer based in New York and arts critic for WNYC.

SF novel about a fine arts critic who, after being exposed to radiation, is transformed into a comic - book superhero.

She has published short fiction in a number of anthologies, has worked as a journalist and arts critic for several magazines in the United Kingdom, and writes regularly for the Independent and Stage.

But when you think about it, you'll agree that stories are a powerful force in our lives: Architectural and visual - arts critic John Bentley Mays says we have stories to teach us, stories to heal us, stories to warn us, and stories to lead us.

Eric's first journalistic forays were as an arts critic, covering film and music for the Stanford Daily; his first feature was about artists - in - residence at the San Francisco dump.

Award - winning journalist, arts critic and record producer Dennis Polkow holds degrees in music theory, composition, philosophy and religious studies from DePaul University, Chicago, and has written frequently about religion and the arts for the Chicago Tribune and is currently on the adjunct faculty of Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL.

According to his website, both the owner of the gallery that displayed the painting and the Los Angeles Times art critic who reviewed it were dead within one year of the exhibit.

«You can never tell from where an idea will spring, whether from an ancient historian, an art critic, an economist, a journalist or even a politician.»

Henry McBride (1867 - 1962) was an important and immensely congenial art critic whose columns in the New York Sun and the Dial did a great deal to introduce the American audience to modernist art.

It's odd, therefore, that a Pulitzer Prize - winning art critic would miss the point, and that the Times's culture editors wouldn't notice the omission.

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

My concern is to draw a connection between the broader situation Gioia describes and the dealer's observation, which cuts to the heart of who I am, as a Christian, and the work I do as an art critic, curator, and art historian.

For in a very real sense, the hatred for art that now assumes the guise of so «called avant «garde art is rooted in that same iconoclastic polemic that animates every syllable of Plato and Nietzsche, not to mention a host of other art critics (in the literal sense of that word) from Origen, St. Augustine, and Blaise Pascal to those Russian commissars of art who ruled on matters of taste by diktat and ukase.

Pattern and plan tend to such dignity and beauty which, in a phrase used in a very different connection by the British art critic Clive Bell, are the result of «significant form.»

As Kramer progressed through the 1950s and 1960s, he confronted an increasingly painful dichotomy: on the one hand, his brilliance as an art critic propelled him toward the center of the cultural establishment (he eventually became chief art critic of the New York Times); on the other hand, his political and moral concerns estranged him from the growing radicalism of the intellectual class that controlled the establishment.

Our most erudite art critics describe an «almost irresistible invitation to submit» to the cult of Koons.

I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

As the late art critic Robert Hughes once pointed out, «The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.»

Chihuly, 61, is one of the nation's best - known glass artists and has been credited by art critics with starting a renaissance of glass art across the U.S..

Kate Linker, «art critic,» gave Lander $ 1000.

the distinguished economist David Sawers quotes the famous art critic Clive Bell as follows: «The one good thing that society can do for the artist is to leave him alone».

«Alex Salmond has form in unveiling vanity projects to himself but he needs to remember he's paid - twice over - to be a parliamentarian, not an art critic.»

Bowerbirds produce elegant bachelor pads (bowers) that would probably elicit favorable reviews from Manhattan art critics — as long as you auctioned them at Sotheby's and did not reveal that they were created by birdbrains.

Probably as many definitions exist as do artists and art critics.

It houses works of art from some of the UK's most famous artists such as George Romney and even holds some of the art critic John Ruskin's finest sketches and water colours

Two wonderful cameos by Jason Schwartzman as the owner of a high end North Beach gallery and Terence Stamp as New York Times art critic John Canaday reveal the gatekeepers to be exactly who they were — and primarily still are — self - important men who delight in throwing their weight around.

One of the most glaring examples is his treatment of 19th century art critic John Ruskin (Josh McGuire) who dares favorably compare Turner's work to other artists.

On a whim, he declares that he painted the children with the oversized eyes, and the lie spirals out of control until the paintings become a revolutionary, multi-million-dollar industry (much to the chagrin of an art critic played by Terence Stamp and a gallery owner played by Jason Schwartzman — two amusingly droll performances).

This week on The Disclaimer, a near - weekly half hour of debate and chit - chat between WMSE's Ryan Schleicher, A.V. Club Milwaukee's Matt Wild and I, we discuss Journal Sentinel art critic Mary Louise Schumacher's recent column about the ceremony su..

The archaeologists (or paleoanthropologists, or hikers, or art critics, the fuck knows / cares?)

He casts Terence Stamp as John Canady, then the art critic for The New York Times.

Leading artists, curators, philosophers and art critics interviewed believe that endless reproduction liberates artwork from a muddled marketplace and an undemocratic exhibition circuit, while wondering whether the urge for physical objects is just a nostalgic fetishism.

Her life's work is described by New York Times art critic John Canaday (Terence Stamp) as kitsch, allowing «Big Eyes» to wrest with that ol' conflict between what is popular but tacky and what is true art and elitist.

Effective side roles include those of Terence Stamp as the art critic, Danny Huston as the reporter, Jon Polito as the night club owner, Jason Schwartzman as the owner of an art gallery, James Saito as the judge in Honolulu's federal court, Madeleine Arthur as Margaret's teen daughter, and Krysten Ritter as Margaret's best friend DeAnn.

Blown away by Jarrod's lifelike creations, respected art critic Sidney Wallace (Paul Cavanagh) considers buying out Matthew.

Guest of Cindy Sherman (Unrated) Art critic Paul Hasegawa - Overacker directs this bio-pic dissecting his romantic relationship with reclusive artist Cindy Sherman.

When the elegant New Jersey - born art critic and writer James Lord agreed to sit for Alberto Giacometti in his Paris atelier in 1964, he may fondly have imagined that the process might unfurl over a leisurely afternoon or so, but soon found himself the object of the great artist's unforgiving scrutiny.

Ciarán Hinds plays a widowed art critic who returns to the scene of a sun - kissed but ultimately painful summer of his childhood — a lost world inhabited by louche bohemian adults (Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, both ripe as all hell) who seem to be trapped for eternity in a Jack Vettriano painting.

I did like Sam (as the audience surrogate) lamenting the NEW YORK TIMES art critic — the standard lowbrow salvo about frustration and all that — moments before his noble spirit is separated from his hyper - toned bod.

Petit also looks at Farber as a painter and an art critic and Hickey as an art critic, a resident of Las Vegas, an appreciator of Farber, and a commentator on American culture.

Set in 1964 Paris and based on the recollections of American expatriate art critic James Lord, Final Portrait depicts Giacometti as a rumpled curmudgeon.

In the mid 19th century, Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning) has been courted by noted art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) since she was only 12 years old, and he has waited for her to come of age to marry her.

Final Portrait (R for profanity, sexual references and nudity) Buddy biopic, set in 1964, chronicling the reunion in Paris of Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) and his good friend, American art critic James Lord (Armie Hammer).

Armie Hammer (left) plays art critic James Lord opposite Geoffrey Rush as painter Alberto Giacometti in «Final Portrait.»

Jason Schwartzman, playing a bitterly sarcastic modern art gallery owner, and the formidable Terence Stamp, an art critic who savagely pans a special painting commissioned for the 1964 World's Fair, get perhaps a total of ten lines between the two of them, lighting up the screen with even the smallest sense of conflict that exists beyond the Keane household.

The actor will play a New York Times art critic in director Tim Burton's biopic about artist Margaret Keane and her husband Walter Keane.

2 X 50 Years ends with a moving tribute to French film criticism — using that term broadly enough to include precursors as well as poets, art critics, and filmmaker - theorists — by furnishing us with a honor roll of 15 individuals, from Denis Diderot to Serge Daney, each of whom is accorded a portrait, a page of text, and an offscreen recitation of a brief passage read by Mieville or Godard.

Her husband John Ruskin — famous to this day as an art critic, a writer on sundry subjects, and a watercolor painter — refused to consummate the marriage throughout its six years» time.

The young art critic Ruskin appears, rhapsodizing about Turner's work and slamming everyone else.

One art critic refers to Margaret's work at kitschy.