Charles Thomson's painting, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, as Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely " signature piece " for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art.

Fiachra Gibbons of The Guardian wrote that the event " will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement.

Campbell has evolved his art style, using colour, collage and photo-shop to create art which The Guardian describe as having " a surreal, scruffy elegance ".

On reflection, Yasuhide Kobayashi, vice-president of Sony's Japan Studio, believed the North American box art and lack of an identifiable English title led to the game's poor sales in the United States, and stated plans to correct that for the release of The Last Guardian.

Tetsuhiko Kikuchi ( credited as HAN in design roles ) is an artist and character designer who had directed several Treasure games, including writing, directing, and creating much of the art for Guardian Heroes and its sequel.

The Elf scandal which came to light in 1994 in France was according to The Guardian, ' the biggest fraud inquiry in Europe since the Second World War ... Elf became a private bank for executives who spent £ 200 million on political favours, mistresses, jewellery, fine art, villas and apartments '.

The Manchester Guardian wrote of this work that it " will serve to remind future generations that here was a musician who matched the nobility of her art with that of her presence on the concert platform.

One of the first newspaper pieces about the K Foundation appeared in The Guardian the following Monday, correctly pointing out that the shortlist and exhibition were actually for the 1993 Turner Prize, the controversial £ 20, 000 annual award given by the UK art establishment to the best young contemporary artist, but assuming that the K Foundation prize was a hoax.

The Guardian said that Jimmy Cauty, " the artist responsible for a best-selling Athena poster of the Hobbit ... can justly say he has adorned more walls than any of the Turner nominees "; and added: " A grand deflation of the pretensions of the wealthy art elite is an aim that has drawn approval from sections of the art world and philistines who find ' installations ' of knotted rope or beds covered in rice curiously unmoving ....

McEwan responded to his critics, and specifically the group British Writers in Support of Palestine ( BWISP ), in a letter to The Guardian, stating in part, " There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics, and for me the emblem in this respect is Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – surely a beam of hope in a dark landscape, though denigrated by the Israeli religious right and Hamas.

Shortly after his death, his obituary in The Guardian newspaper declared that " For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art.

As The Guardian wrote, " Hamilton's photographs have long been at the forefront of the " is it art or pornography?

City Limits said they were " candy-floss art capitalists ", whilst The Guardian dubbed them " The three haircuts ".

The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world ; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top 5 * grade in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and was ranked second nationally for History of Art in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and ranked first nationally for History and History of Art in The Guardian ’ s 2011 University Guide .< ref >

* The Guardian, 2 October 2004 " Brief Encounters " ( William Boyd on the art of short story writing )

In an obituary for The Guardian, art critic Ian Jeffrey called her 1985 book Land ( ISBN 0434303054 ), published by Heinemann, the " book for which she will be most remembered ":

The former Islington Studios, in Poole Street, remained largely derelict after their closure in 1951 apart from occasional art performances, including two epic Shakespearean productions by the Almeida Theatre Company, April – July 2000, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Ralph Fiennes, and a closing Hitchcock season in October 2003 .< ref >< cite > The final reel-The Guardian September 27, 2003 accessed 15 April 2007 </ cite ></ ref >

As in the best of Gladwell's work, Blink brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves .” The Economist called Outliers “ a compelling read with an important message .” David Leonhardt wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “ In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today ” and that Outliers “ leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward .” Ian Sample wrote in the Guardian: “ Brought together, the pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art.

A review from The Guardian noted that despite the low production values, ' nothing else comes close to capturing the atmosphere of the early days of hip-hop and spraycan art ...'

* The 2005 art installation-from The Guardian

Adrian Searle, art critic for the Guardian, put it succinctly in a review of a Fluxus exhibition ;

The Guardian called him " arguably the world's most consistent art thief.

" Writing in Richardson's sister paper, The Manchester Guardian, the critic referred to Johnson's ' sex snobbery and sadism ' tag, but pointed out that whilst " the casualties take place on a somewhat narrower front than usual, they are heavy ".

Another Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that " this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making ".

Musical critic Andrew Clements writing for The Guardian commented on Ravel's failures at winning the competition: " Ravel's repeated failure to win the Prix de Rome, the most coveted prize for young composers in France at the turn of the 20th century, has become part of musical folklore.

Beyond this, much of the critical estimation of the film continues to be low ; in 2008, film critic Joe Queenan of The Guardian named Heaven's Gate the worst film ever made.

Summing up this triumphant period, The Guardian critic Michael Billington later wrote: " 1977 the RSC struck gold.

* Controversial critic of Israel's origins and its role in the Middle East Obituary in The Guardian, 26 June 2007

Guardian book critic Laura Wilson described an Aga Saga setting as " complete with sprawling, untidy farmhouse ( flagstones, dogs, Wellington boots, and much nursing of mugs of coffee )".

Herring and some of his contemporaries, including Dave Gorman, were angered when comments he makes in his show were grossly misrepresented in an opinion column written by critic Brian Logan in The Guardian.

In 2008, the head rock and pop critic of The Guardian, Alexis Petridis, criticised the programme for being unadventurous, claiming " There's virtually no dance music, nothing experimental, not much pop or hip-hop.

Writing in The Guardian, critic Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing under the name Francis Iles, noted that the two minor grammatical errors he spotted were " likely to spoil no one's enjoyment " of the novel as he considered that On Her Majesty's Secret Service was " not only up to Mr. Fleming's usual level, but perhaps even a bit above it.

Literary critic Nicholas Lezard praised the book in The Guardian, particularly for its discussion of the break-up of Steel's relationship, which " gives it a poignancy and depth which at its outset one might not have expected ".

In his book Mafia State, Luke Harding, the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian from to 2007 to 2011 and a fierce critic of Russia, alleges that the FSB subjected him to continual psychological harassment, with the aim of either getting him to practice self-censorship in his reporting, or to quit the country entirely.

His 2002 London debut was described by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian music critic, as the worst gig she had been to.

The Manchester Guardian, in the first half of the 20th Century, employed Neville Cardus as its cricket correspondent as well as its music critic.

During the 1980s she was a drama critic for The Observer in London for a time, as well as working as a music critic for The Guardian and The New Statesman.

* Michael Billington ( critic ) ( born 1939 ), the drama critic of The Guardian

Karroubi is a critic of the Guardian Council and Iran's Judicial System.

Mr Karroubi is a critic of the Guardian Council and on numerous occasions wrote letters to the council expressing his concerns.

He worked in the recording industry from 1927, combining this with the post of junior music critic of The Manchester Guardian.

Between 1933 and 1938 Legge also worked as a music critic for The Manchester Guardian.

" The Manchester Guardian added: " One is tempted to cast discretion to the winds and predict that this will be remembered as the best comedy of its kind and generation ... one of those rare occasions when the critic must claim the privilege of his fellow-playgoers, simply to marvel, admire, and enjoy wholeheartedly.