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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 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..!.
Hughes is probably best known for his strong stance against what he called the "commodification and hyping the market" of the art world in 1980s. The boom in the art market during this time brought Hughes to lambaste many an artist as being overrated and over-hyped, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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.
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 · At some early point in his long career, more than three decades of it spent at TIME, Robert Hughes became the most famous art critic in the English-speaking world. This happened because he was...
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 6, 2012 · The Australian-born Hughes was the art critic for Time Magazine starting in 1970, the author of the bestselling history of Australia, The Fatal Shore, and was the writer, producer,...
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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
