Sentences with phrase «decades as a critic»

After almost three decades as a critic, he still speaks of gallery shows as extraordinary offerings.

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Critics may complain that the company has strayed far from its wholesome roots but, without Whole Foods, it's hard to imagine many of the decades trends in food, from sustainable fishing to artisanal cheese, taking off as they have.

He says Adidas needs to «reset» everywhere, not just in the U.S. Evaluating the brand, Liedtke is as brutal as the critics, acknowledging that young athletes aren't looking to the three stripes the way they did a decade or two ago.

But as the Fed prepares to make a historical rate increase for the first time in nearly a decade, some critics question whether the central bank administered its monetary medicine too long.

The work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, a perennial Nobel Prize candidate for the past two decades, has been acclaimed by many scholars and critics as classic 20th - century world literature.

The very cost of mounting and moving so comprehensive a show (having closed in Chicago, it is now in Philadelphia and from there goes to Los Angeles and New York) makes it all the more remarkable that an artist who had generated so much hostility among so many critics at the beginning of the decade in both the United States and Germany would have survived the firestorm of criticism and receive solid support from such establishment stalwarts as the Lannan Foundation and the Ford Motor Company.

Though Tranter often praises today's park district in comparison to Kelly's, park officials tend to view Tranter and her group as relentless critics who fail to appreciate the progress parks have made during the last two decades.

The former shadow chancellor attacked critics of Ed Miliband as the «delusional left», saying they would keep Labour out of power for a decade.

Critics over the decades have derided the MP for Peckham as Harriet Harperson because of her feminist views.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

But Bratton, who has spent four decades in law enforcement, has been hailed for his work reducing major crime in racially torn Los Angeles, where he won over some of his harshest critics while serving as commissioner for seven years.

A longtime vocal critic of the school board, Paladino chose to run in opposition of teachers union head Phil Rumore and superintendent Pamela Brown, whose hiring (as well as every other non-interim superintendent hire in the past two decades) Paladino has speculated was at least partially motivated by race.

Critical polls conducted by Film Comment, indieWIRE, the Village Voice / LA Weekly, Cahiers du Cinéma and now the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have all chosen David Lynch's 2001 «Mulholland Dr.» as the best movie of the decade.

First time director Eddie Mullins was a film critic for a decade prior to becoming a filmmaker, and as a result has an encyclopedic pool of filmic reference from which to pull from.

Critics must have desperately yearned for Woody Allen's return to form, or else they wouldn't have been reflexively hailing his every offering in the last decade as a return to form regardless of merit.

Much has been made of the endorsement Bahrani received from the influential film critic Roger Ebert, as «the director of the decade».

Though he began his career as a critic and groundbreaking screenwriter, Paul Schrader has emerged — over the past four decades — as one of American cinema's most accomplished and perennially underrated directors.

But it's also worth noting that the oft - maligned HFPA has for the large part made reasonable, even smart choices in recent years — and as a group that has been the butt of jokes for decades, they're not anxious to provide more fodder for their critics.

As the YouTube critic Really That Good pointed out in November, superhero films as they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genrAs the YouTube critic Really That Good pointed out in November, superhero films as they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genras they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genre.

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.

In a way, it finally made official what critics and fans had slowly come to realize over the last decade (and at least since his 1988 «Bird»): Clint Eastwood — legendary as both the iconic western drifter with no name and Dirty Harry — was one of America's best directors.

Picking up an award from the London Film Critics» Circle, Winslet said, «there are directors, producers, and men of power who have for decades been awarded and applauded for their highly regarded work... As women around the world and from all walks of life marched last weekend, once again joining together to speak out against harassment, exploitation, and abuse, I realised that I wouldn't be able to stand here this evening and keep to myself some bitter regrets that I have about poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not.»

He has won virtually every critics» precursor up to this point, and as an industry veteran who has built up decades of goodwill, there's no reason to expect that celebration to end.

Kent Jones may be best known as a New York - based film critic and programmer, serving as the editor - at - large of Film Comment for a decade before eventually becoming the director of programming for the New York Film Festival.

As a critic of over two decades I can attest that on the big screen females are far less likely to play a protagonist role compared to their male counterparts.

n 1999, M. Night Shyamalan took Hollywood by storm with the supernatural thriller «The Sixth Sense,» but over the course of the past decade, the writer / director has slowly fallen out of favor with many of the same critics who once hailed him as the next Alfred Hitchcock.

Almost a decade ago, in her book The Language Police, Diane Ravitch, who recently became a critic of the Common Core, censured textbook and standardized - test publishers for suppressing any reference to entire realms of content that could be construed as «unfair.»

When a policy change this sweeping happens so quickly (a decade is a very short time for a change of this scope, especially in America's highly decentralized educational environment), it should come as no surprise when critics appear on multiple fronts.

Anticipating by three decades the battles over Teach For America, the program inspired proponents who hoped it would bring more intelligent young people into teaching along with critics who saw it as denigrating the wisdom of veteran teachers and deprofessionalizing the field.

DeVos is a Michigan billionaire who has labored tirelessly for decades to promote school choice, or alternatives to traditional public schools, and is seen by critics as the most ideological and anti-public-education secretary in the more than 40 years of the department's history.

Improbably, at the end of a four - decade - long career as the nation's most prominent education historian and a vocal advocate for education reform, Ravitch has emerged as reform's fiercest critic.

Hailed by critics and consumers alike as the best - looking and most realistic racing game of this, or any other generation, Forza Motorsport 5 has been embraced by Xbox One fans worldwide, becoming the best - selling racing game by console attach over the past decade.

Adored by critics and fans alike Xenoblade Chronicles and its sequel have both been referred to as being among the best JRPGs of the last decade, rejuvenating the genre and players interests in it.

As art critic for Willamette Week, Portland's highly regarded alternative weekly newspaper, Speer has strolled through galleries in and around the Oregon city for more than a decade.

Throughout the preceding decade, Clement Greenberg, also a former poet, had established a reputation as a leftist critic through his writings with The Partisan Review — a publication run by the John Reed Club, a New York City - centered organization affiliated with the American Communist Party — and his time as an art critic with The Nation.

This new work has almost nothing in common with the overblown, space - filling, mixed - media installations that the critic Peter Schjeldahl described in 1999 as «festival art» — made for the commercial art fairs that have proliferated internationally for almost two decades.

For a time, two critics in particular — who began as friends, and remained in the same social circles for much of their lives — set the stakes of the debates surrounding the maturation of American art that would continue for decades.

Some two decades later, however, the age - old medium is now experiencing a veritable resurgence as it once again fills galleries, museums, and art fairs (not to mention the eyes of critics and the walls of collectors).

He flourished as a critic in New York from the 1940s to 1960s, but even today, decades after his best - known work and 17 years after his death, he is a totemic and constantly invoked voice on modern art.

Over the next decade, Judd worked as a critic for ARTnews, Arts Magazine, and Art International; his subsequent theoretical writings on art and exhibition practices would prove to be some of his most important and lasting legacies.

Critic's Pick: Few artists are as right on as Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who in her five - decade - plus career has created a generous and muscular body of work of performances, interventions, and other projects that have dealt swift, sharp blows to the systems and frameworks imposed on art and culture by capitalism.

A better chapter began nearly a decade later with the pioneering exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend in 2002, that earned accolades from the chief art critic of The New York Times as «some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.»

The massive expansion of the art market in recent decades has aroused much intrigue about how galleries operate, particularly as critics, artists and independent curators take the lead in opening their own spaces, enhancing the appeal of the gallerist's role.

As an internationally recognized artist whose work spanned five decades, Allan D'Arcangelo began painting at a pivotal moment when artists, critics, and dealers were challenging the dominance of abstract expressionism and other modernist doctrines and hotly contesting new criteria in defining the creation and interpretation of art in society.

Two decades later, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire recognized flânerie as the powerful engine of a new art movement in Paris and, inspired by Poe's man of the crowd, promoted it in his landmark 1863 essay «The Painter of Modern Life,» which heralded the arrival of the quintessential artist - flâneurs — the French impressionists.

Over the next decade, Judd worked as a critic for artnews, Arts Magazine, and Art International; his subsequent theoretical writings on art and exhibition practices would prove to be some of his most important and lasting legacies.

More recently, in 2004, Guardian critic Jonathan Jones expressed a similar sentiment in response to the presentation, back in 2000, of the collection at the newly opened Tate Modern, as well as the «MoMA 2000» exhibition cycle from that same year, which was the first significant reinstallation of the museum's collection in decades.

Scores of scholars, curators, and critics have published copiously illustrated books and exhibition catalogues devoted to retrospective looks at the French artist's five - decade - long career, as well as his use of color, textiles, and ornament, his portraits and still lifes, his penchant for making two versions of the same subject from time to time, his visits to Morocco, the Nice period of the 1920s, his late cutouts, the chapel in Vence, France, and even his collectors.

Over the next decade, Judd worked as a writer and critic in parallel with his artistic practice.