list of critics

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This is an alphabetically ordered list of architecture, art, cultural, dance, dramatic, film, literary, musical, and social critics organized by place of origin or residence and then by area of criticism.

American

art and architecture

Lawrence Alloway
Bernard Berenson
Elisabeth Luther Cary
Arthur Danto
Elaine de Kooning
Katherine Dreier
Ernest F. Fenollosa
Michael Fried
Clement Greenberg
Sadakichi Hartmann
James Gibbons Huneker
Donald Judd
Hilton Kramer
Rosalind E. Krauss
Donald Kuspit
John La Farge
Lucy Lippard
Herbert Muschamp
Nancy Newhall
Fairfield Porter
Ad Reinhardt
Harold Rosenberg
Meyer Schapiro
John Szarkowski
Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer

cultural and social

Stanley Crouch
Reginald De Koven
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Joseph Wood Krutch
John Leonard
Lucy Lippard
Mary McCarthy
H.L. Mencken
Camille Paglia
Neil Postman
Adrienne Rich
Edward Said
Wilfrid Sheed
Susan Sontag

dance

Lincoln Kirstein

dramatic

Robert Benchley
Eric Bentley
Harold Clurman
Walter Francis Kerr
Brander Matthews
Gardner McKay
George Jean Nathan
Harriet Quimby
Carl Van Vechten
Alexander Woollcott

film

James Agee
Peter Bogdanovich
Vincent Canby
Roger Ebert
Brendan Gill
Pauline Kael
Stanley Kauffmann
Meyer Levin
Dwight Macdonald
Louella Parsons
Andrew Sarris
George Seldes
Gene Siskel
Mark Van Doren

list of critics

American

Argentine

Australian

Austrian

Belgian

Brazilian

British

Canadian

Chinese

Croatian

Cuban

Czech

Danish

Dominican

Dutch

Egyptian

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Lebanese

Lithuanian

Mexican

Moroccan

New Zealand

Nigerian

Norwegian

Peruvian

Polish

Portuguese

Puerto Rican

Romanian

Russian

South African

South Korean

Spanish

Swedish

Swiss

Syrian

Tunisian

Turkish

Ugandan

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