Critics

A critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting and evaluating art forms. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures and catalogues and on web sites

Art

• John Ashbery
• John Berger
• Clarence Joseph Bulliet
• Arthur Danto
• Hal Foster
• Michael Fried
• Clement Greenberg
• Dave Hickey
• Robert Hughes
• Lucy R. Lippard
• Robert C. Morgan
• Dance[edit]
• Arlene Croce
• Edwin Denby

Film

• James Agee
• Vincent Canby
• Jacques Corédor, pseudonym for Steve Fiorilla (born 1961)
• Manohla Dargis
• David Denby
• Roger Ebert (1942–2013)
• Manny Farber
• Otis Ferguson
• Brendan Gill
• Graham Greene
• Phil Hall
• J. Hoberman
• Pauline Kael
• Stanley Kauffmann
• Stuart Klawans
• Anthony Lane
• Tim Lucas
• Dwight Macdonald
• Derek Malcolm (born 1939)
• Barry Norman
• Gerald Peary
• Terrence Rafferty
• Rex Reed
• Donald Richie
• Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Andrew Sarris
• A. O. Scott
• Gene Shalit
• John Simon
• Gene Siskel (1946–1999)
• Parker Tyler
• Armond White

Literature

• Harold Bloom
• Frances Ferguson
• Linford S. Haines
• Claudia L. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• David Lodge
• Ira B. Nadel
• Lionel Trilling

Music

• Lester Bangs
• Ian Penman
• Linda Solomon
• Harold C. Schonberg
• Anthony Tommasini
• Ted White

Theater

• Ben Brantley
• Richard L. Coe
• David Cote
• Charles Isherwood
• Walter Kerr
• John Simon
• Larry Stark

Television

• Amy Amatangelo
• Álvaro Cueva
• Andy Dehnart
• John Doyle
• Ian Hyland
• Marvin Kitman
• Frazier Moore
• James Poniewozik
• Alan Sepinwall
• Tom Shales
• Jim Shelley
• Alessandra Stanley
• Jay Nelson Tuck

Other disciplines

• Jacques Barzun
• Walter Benjamin
• Whitwell Elwin (1816–1900) – literature and social
• bell hooks
• Camille Paglia
• Susan Sontag

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