Role of the Critic outside wine

When reading the cork'd case last night and thinking more broadly about the 'role of the critic' in other goods where quality is both hard to measure and different for different people, I was reminded about another area where critics play a huge role: art.  Specifically with regards to american abstract expressionism art in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, two key critics played enormous roles in evaluating the works of American legends like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning.  Their names are Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, and their works and opinions on American art (which took the mantel as the center of the art world from from post-WWII), and their pieces were crucial in educating the art community on the values and merits of different art pieces.  Here's a great summary of how each looked at art (and a document I used to memorize before numerous exams years ago):

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Of course, art collectors or museum-goers had no requirement to agree with Greenberg or Rosenberg's opinions (and would often violate one's opinion by agreeing with the other).  However, these critics played a huge role in cultivating demand for different artists' works, which ultimately would play a major role in setting the price at which pieces would go to auction.

This seems very similar to the wine industry, where Parker scores can be the make or break for a wine's price and demand, and given the likely overlap in the crowds of wine drinkers and art fines, I hope that this neat parallel is interesting to the rest of you.

https://www.theartstory.org/critics-greenberg-rosenberg.htm
https://www.scribd.com/document/132690058/Art-Critics-Comparison-Clement-Gree