Robert Hughes, the pugnacious art critic and historian whose specialties ranged from Francisco Goya and Lucian Freud to the histories of Australia and Rome, died on Monday in the Bronx at the Calva… ...

Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes died today at 74. Photo / File Robert Hughes was built like a brick dunny, wrote like a waspish angel and probably did more than any other critic to ...

Any art critic it sure to engender passionate opinions about his or her opinions, especially one with a voice so loud and unique as Hughes. However, as Hitchens wrote, "no critic could have asked ...

Influential Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes has died in New York after a long illness. He was 74. Mr Hughes made major contributions to the world of art and the telling of ...

The noted Australian art critic, writer and documentary film maker, Robert Hughes, has died in New York. He was 74. In 2006, Robert Hughes talked about how he first became interested in art and ...

A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of ...

He joined The Australian as national art critic in 2008 and has consistently delivered columns distinguished by his learned, opinionated and discursive style.

In the history of Australian galleries ... Even when I started writing art criticism for The Sydney Morning Herald, in the last five years or so of Macquarie’s operation, it was possible ...

Australia’s then best-known art critic, James Smith, said in the Melbourne daily newspaper The Argus, “Of the 180 exhibits…something like four-fifths pain the eye.” Nevertheless, more than 80 ...

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author of “The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art." He has worked at ...