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04/23/09
Who Gets to Call it Art? (2006)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:11
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 1, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: The 1960s art scene was a hive of creative activity, and Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was a pivotal figure around which the movement... [More]
Director: Peter Rosen
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Reviews for Who Gets to Call it Art?
1 - 16 (sorted by rotten rating)
hard for us to take too seriously
05/25/06
Surely a figure as crucial as Geldzahler deserves more incisive treatment.
01/31/06
The film's flippant style ultimately undermines its material -- and, ironically, makes the American art scene of the '60s appear as shallow and trendy as its detractors always claimed it was.
02/03/06
Clocking in at 80 minutes, this glib, largely uninformative and poorly organized précis of the post-World War II art scene succeeds neither as history nor as art history.
02/01/06
Through his use of green screen and montage, Rosen seems to want to position his film as its own work of Pop Art.
01/18/06
The film's appeal is for the eyes.
02/03/06
Top CriticYou are likely to enjoy this bio-pic to the extent that you buy into the idea that one effete snob ought to define an aesthetic for the rest of us slobs.
05/28/07
Can be enjoyed as a quick overview of the contemporary American art scene.
03/01/07
Shot with a Peter Greenaway-like austere impudence and edited brilliantly (by Jed Parker), this is an entertaining movie, and a moving one -- even if, like me, you're not especially fond of these paintings or that scene.
06/22/06
Top CriticRosen covers a lot of ground in 80 minutes, and he's picked the right subject to focus on.
02/16/06
A documentary that is a true work of art.
11/04/05
This documentary feels stacked on his subject's side.
03/02/06
Both richly complex and immediately accessible.
11/04/05
With its snappy, even hectic editing and great archival footage, Who Gets to Call It Art? is loads of fun to watch.
03/03/06
Peter Rosen's documentary Who Gets to Call It Art? paints an entertaining picture of the cherubic gentleman, who as the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
02/03/06
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