Complex sentence: He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1984, and afterwards moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance art critic, writing about film, art, architecture, and books for several magazines.
Split into simpler sentences: He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1984, and afterwards moved to New York City. In New York, he worked as a freelance art critic, writing about film, art, architecture, and books for several magazines.