Christopher Hitchens wrote in his 2006 review of Robert Hughes' autobiography that "Things I Didn't Know: a Memoir" had been "written by a dead man on leave," and the often acerbic Hitchens said ...

Influential Australian art critic, historian and writer Robert Hughes has died aged 74 in New York after a long illness, a statement from family said on August 7, 2012.

Robert Hughes, a giant of 20th-century art criticism who first became known in the U.S. through his reviews for Time magazine, has died at age 74. The Australian writer was famous for writing big ...

Australian-born art critic and social historian Robert Hughes (The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore) died August 6 in New York City after a long illness.

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 ...

Robert Hughes, pugnacious essayist and critic, who wrote a best-selling history of Australia and was the host of TV series on art history, dies at 74 ...

Australian writer and art critic Robert Hughes, whose works include "The Fatal Shore" and "The Shock of the New," died yesterday in New York, his publishers said. Hughes, 74, died after a long ...

Robert Hughes Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Also noteworthy is a collection of fifty-six audio recordings of interviews, lectures, and travel journals dating from 1971 ...

Australian-born New York art critic Robert Hughes passed away today at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after a long battle with illness.

The art critic Robert Hughes had great power with words. He delivered them from a hefty physical frame, in rounded Australian baritone. And when sprung onto the pages of Time magazine (for which ...

It is either cruelly ironic, or entirely appropriate, that Robert Hughes, the great art critic, should have died on Aug. 6, of all days—Andy Warhol’s birthday. Hughes was most famous for the ...