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Robert Hughes has been called the "most popular art critic in the country," and to have given Time magazine its "only consistently good writing" in recent years (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/5/93).
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world."
Aug 7, 2012 · Robert Hughes, the eloquent, combative art critic and historian who lived with operatic flair and wrote with a sense of authority that owed more to Zola or Ruskin than to his own century,...
May 12, 1997 · Today, Robert Hughes, who is fifty-eight, has to be accounted the most famous art critic in the world-a position vouchsafed by his art reviews in Time, essays for The New York Review of Books, and best-selling studies of art, culture, and history.
Dec 1, 2006 · The art critic and social historian Robert Hughes chronicles the first installment of his journey from provincial boyhood to urbane adulthood.
Despite lacking a tertiary degree, Robert Hughes - who passed away in New York overnight after a long battle with illness - was one of the world's most admired art critics, particularly during the 20th century's last decades.
May 4, 1997 · LIFE AND LETTERS about Australian-born art critic Robert Hughes. At fifty-eight, Hughes is the most famous art critic in the world -- a position vouchsafed by his art reviews in Time, essays...
