Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic some are calling the greatest of our time, has died. Hughes' imposing presence and unsparing criticism will be immediately recognizable to anyone who's seen his ...

Painting is back in vogue at the giant art fair. But it’s superficial and silly rather than sleazy and shocking. The Masters section is where the work to lust over is – with an actual space rock for ...

Robert Hughes, the New York-based Australian born art critic whose documentaries for public television brought art to the masses — or at least the tiny slice of the masses who watched public TV — has ...

Aug 6 (Reuters) - Australian writer and art critic Robert Hughes, whose works include "The Fatal Shore" and "The Shock of the New," died on Monday in New York, his publishers said. Aug. 7, 2012, 12:27 ...

Art critic, writer, and documentary maker Robert Hughes was celebrated for his authoritative voice and ability to explain and critique the inspirations and direction of art movements. Hughes ...

Cultural critic Hughes (The Fatal Shore ) slices into his own life with his ever-ready scalpel of penetrating analysis, opening his saga in 1999 with his near-fatal car accident at age 60 in his ...

Robert Hughes, who brought a muscular, confrontational writing style to the genteel world of art criticism, and whose books and television programs on art and the history of his native Australia ...

Hughes, who served for decades as the chief art critic at Time magazine, became one of the most famous critics in the world. He was 74 years old. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.Aug. 8, 2012 ...

An Australian street artist seems an unlikely figure to reprise Robert Hughes's market-averse brand of video art criticism. I was at Catching the Light, Lois Dodd’s retrospective at the Kemper Museum ...