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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."
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).
Apr 30, 2024 · Robert Hughes (born July 28, 1938, Sydney, Australia—died August 6, 2012, Bronx, New York, U.S.) was an Australian art critic and television personality known for his informed and highly opinionated criticism and his accessible and succinct writing style.
Robert Lindsay Hughes (born 19 August 1948) also billed variously as Bob Hughes and Robert Hughs, is an Australian-born British former actor who appeared in ABBA: The Movie and the television sitcom Hey Dad..!.
Aug 7, 2012 · The Australian critic Robert Hughes, who has died aged 74, shook up the art world with his uncompromising views. Share your thoughts about him here
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...
Nov 1, 1999 · The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938–2012) With thundering eloquence, TIME's legendary critic skewered pretensions and vulgarity, reminding anyone who cared for art that it must be...
Australian sitcom actor Robert Hughes will be freed from jail and deported to the UK after serving a sentence for child sexual abuse. Hughes found fame for his lead role in Australian TV show...
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,...
Aug 7, 2012 · Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic known for his scathing <i>Time </i>reviews and the documentary <em>The Shock of the New</em>, has died.
