LA's hamburger stands have held the fascination of visiting critics since the 1970s.
In addition to the work space the alliance provided them with supplies and has offered them trips to studios, museums and galleries along with input from visiting critics and collectors.
What Toronto has grown into is a festival that combines public support with a large professional presence, which means that visiting critics and distributors see movies alongside a huge and famously responsive local audience.
These days, she spends one day a week at Harvard, where she is a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design.
For a visiting critic, a week of theatergoing (to be discussed in a future notebook) made an ample case for the energy and talent being nurtured here.
Still, for one visiting critic, Mr. Gardiner and Mr. Gergiev on two straight nights are pretty impressive, with three nights to come this week.
Ms. Jagger, who teaches sculpture at Pratt Institute and is a visiting critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, said "The Cry" reminded her of a church steeple, "with its strong verticality".
But he ended the group on a lighter note, with "Abschied," a setting of the Mörike poem in which a visiting critic is sent hurtling down a flight of stairs.
"Shanghai has always had a modern sensibility, of thinking without constraints," said Calvin Tsao, a partner at Tsao McKown, a Manhattan architectural firm, and a visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
He organised conferences for the Congrès Internationale des Architectes Modernes (CIAM) at Hoddesdon and Bridgwater, served on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects (a trying experience), was visiting critic at Harvard University, and in 1959-60 became president of the AA.
Although these pieces seem a bit clunky by comparision with Ms. Taylor's current work, they drew the attention of a visiting critic, the artist Andrea Zittel, who appreciated that Ms. Taylor was using a craft with hobbyist associations to make scenes that suggested both comics and genre paintings, without descending to kitsch.
