51.   Ms. Douglas was born in England, the daughter of the art critic and dealer Robert Langton Douglas.

52.   Nineteeth-century art critic John Ruskin dismissively claimed that Tintoretto painted with a broom.

53.   Nobody elected him art critic.

54.   Nonetheless, the dumbing down of art books and criticism is a concern to many art critics and historians.

55.   Of course, art critics can always fall back on clever sarcasm.

56.   Once art critics sneered at her name.

57.   Only in the visual arts did Italian Futurism leave a significant legacy, remembered today thanks largely to the art critics and museums that it set out to destroy.

58.   One was Calvin Tomkins, the New Yorker art critic and writer, with whom she had a daughter.

59.   One can almost hear Hilton Kramer, the curmudgeonly art critic, sharpening his ax offstage.

60.   One Seattle art critic carped that a Northwest artist should have been selected for the commission.