masterpiece
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Its 1977 debut LP “Marquee Moon” is universally considered a rock masterpiece, landing at No. 107 on Rolling Stone’s ranking of the top albums of all time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Rome's top official for cultural heritage, Claudio Parisi Presicce, called the work an "absolute masterpiece, perhaps the most important pictorial work to have survived from antiquity".
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“But also look at a Prince album like ‘Sign o’ the Times,’ which is a masterpiece, but some of Prince’s best ideas on that album are mistakes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The Guardian awarded the film five stars, external, calling it "a modern masterpiece of deceit", stressing how "TV's grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
One sketch included a party sequence where we imitated our parents, but our masterpiece was the Persian Jerry Springer Show.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
In 1990, two men disguised as police officers spent 81 minutes crisscrossing Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to cut out and carry off masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Two of the masterpieces stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a suburb of Nice, have yet to be recovered.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
From masterpieces to trash-terpieces, I’m willing to defend most directors against critics who assume they’ve thought more about a movie’s flaws in two hours than the filmmaker did during a year of work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The cat may be evolution’s artwork, but it is the dog that holds sway in prints and paintings, and in many cases transforms them into masterpieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Handel was the more adventurous pan-European traveller, learning his craft in Italy and then, in his twenties, settling for good in England, where he was to create the great body of his masterpieces.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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