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Critics are discussing Gladiator II starring Paul Mescal, ahead of its November 22 release, comparing Ridley Scott's sequel to the first movie.
Art, architecture and design news. Criticism and reviews from co-chief art critics Roberta Smith and Holland Cotter and architecture critic Michael Kimmelman.
There are two celebrity art shows on right now that are getting a lot of buzz — but not necessarily for all the right reasons ...
Ben Davis on what makes the writing of the late 'New Yorker' art critic Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022) so hard to top. What the late 'New Yorker' art critic meant to me. Price Database.
Peter Schjeldahl, the eminent and widely read New York art critic, died Friday at his country home in the tiny upstate town of Bovina, near the Catskills, where he and his wife, former actor ...
The Art of the Music Critic is an incisive and illuminating compendium of an expansive stretch of our musical timeline, presented in an invitingly user-friendly form.
Peter Schjeldahl, revered art critic for the New Yorker, dies at 80. Passionate, knowledgeable and incisive, he had a gift for conveying complex or surprising thoughts in melodious sentences.
In the late 1950s and early ’60s, a gulf was opening between mass entertainment and high art, between movies and cinema. For the latter, Kael had boundless disdain.