Word: criticism
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...Yorker film critic] David Denby called ‘Crash’ one of the best first films in the history of film, to which I say, ‘Get the fuck out of here!’” Haggis blurts out, breaking into laughter...
...rock music to its ultimate state. Some maintain that this “telos” was “Revolver,” others will swear to you that it was “Dark Side of the Moon.” We know better. Our critical scopes are so broad as to encompass more music than we could listen to if we were to devote every minute of the day to such an exercise, and every year we find more that challenges our expectations, turns on its forebears, innovates on the past or at least embraces it ironically...
Following Kirby’s statement, questions period opened with remarks from Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who has been a vocal critic of Summers in recent months...
DIED. Diego Giacometti, 82, Swiss furniture designer and sculptor; of a heart attack; in Paris. His early artistic life took its direction from his more famous sculptor brother Alberto, for whom he was collaborator, critic and model. In their 40 years together, Diego was responsible for the casting and patinating, or surface finishing, of Alberto's attenuated figures. After his older brother's death in 1966, Diego's creative talent emerged in a menagerie of whimsical animals and birds and in rustic yet beautifully proportioned furniture and lamps that built his reputation as a master in his own right...
DIED. John Canaday, 78, art critic and author whose gracefully expressed but frequently combative views appeared in the New York Times from 1959 to 1977; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. He had catholic but conservative taste, and his several well-received books included the multivolume Metropolitan Seminars in Art (1958-60) and The Lives of the Painters...