Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, despite the assurances of the world's top Van Gogh experts, doubts about the painting's authenticity began to circulate among an international coterie of art enthusiasts. Stylistically, says Jean-Marie Tasset, art critic for the French daily Figaro, the serene canvas is "atypical" of the frenetic paintings made during the artist's last days. The central walkway is done in a pointillist manner virtually unprecedented in Van Gogh's late works...
Admittedly, I am not the best qualified theater critic on campus. If I remember correctly, the last campus show I actually attended was a shaky production of "Pippin" in the Dunster House dining hall my freshman year. Its simple sets and weak acting reminded me of the production of the show that had gone up in my high school just one year before. I decided immediately that I would not be a Harvard theater junkie...
...revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called her a witch for supporting sanctions on Saddam Hussein, who passed out bags of cookies decorated with hearts to members of the Security Council on Valentine's Day. "I like this appointment better than anyone else," says Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan's U.N. ambassador. "This really represents a breakthrough...
...missus, about whom little is known except that she's a nurse for Jackson's dermatologist and that someone has offered topless photos of her to the tabloids. The happy nuptials took place after Jackson's first Australian HIStory tour concert, which received wan reviews from the locals. One critic called the facing-down-the-tanks-on-Tiananmen-Square imagery with which Jackson closes his show a "new low in self-indulgence." Here's hoping the romance gets better notices...
ROBERT HUGHES, TIME's art critic, knows the artist Jasper Johns only slightly, but he has followed Johns' work closely for decades. "He is unquestionably the most famous--and high priced--artist in America," says Hughes, who appraises a new Johns retrospective at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in this week's issue. "The question is whether his work over the past 20 years will be seen as the equal of the paintings--like the flags and the targets--that made his reputation 40 years ago. I wonder if it will be." Hughes' own reputation, meanwhile, continues...