Anthony David Bernard Sylvester CBE (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator.
Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Lucian Freud.
Sylvester is credited with coining the term kitchen sink originally to describe a strand of post-war British painting typified by John Bratby.
During the 1950s, Sylvester worked with Henry Moore, Freud and Bacon but also supported Richard Hamilton and the other "Young Turks" of British Pop art.
[3] and in 1983, he co-curated (with Donald King of the Victoria and Albert Museum) an exhibition, The Eastern Carpet in the Western World, at the Hayward Gallery.