Robert Hughes

Paul Schimmel: Contemporary art's ideas man

2013-01-12 13:00:00

Ninety-six works by 26 artists from the United States, Europe and Asia, brought together to illuminate a big — but overlooked — idea. "Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962" is vintage MOCA. A boldly thoughtful, revisionist...

Hector Tobar's recommendations

2012-12-02 00:00:00

When my father was 13 his mother kidnapped him from a small town in Guatemala. This bold act liberated my father from a cruel and abusive stepmother — but it also brought an end to his education. My grandmother took her son to Guatemala City,...

Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect

2012-12-05 20:50:00

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...

Robert Hughes dies; art critic and author was 74

2012-08-08 00:00:00

Robert Hughes, a sometimes lacerating reviewer who may have commanded a larger audience than any other art critic in history, reaching the masses through 31 years as chief art critic for Time magazine and in a series of multi-part television documentaries...

Art review: Damien Hirst at Gagosian Gallery

2012-01-13 16:33:05

Introducing the Hatchet Job of the Year Award

2012-01-11 16:34:57

Nonfiction

2011-11-30 00:00:00

The Age of Movies The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited by Sanford Schwartz Library of America, $40 Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best. Alice James A...

The consequences of letting it rip in 1974

2011-09-25 00:00:00

So there's my name, on Page 1 of "Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980," the Getty's massive overview catalog for its monumental effort to get Southern California modern art into the heretofore New York-centric history of American modernism....

PST, A to Z: 'Golden' and 'June' at Craft and Folk Art Museum

2011-10-07 16:32:59

Notre Dame 20, USC 16 (final)

2010-11-27 21:32:53

Dramatist Donald Margulies sees the stage in a fresh light

2007-09-23 00:00:00

More than a quarter century ago, the critic Robert Hughes called the public's response to Modern art "the shock of the new." The role of art was to stimulate ideas, provoke thought, challenge ways of seeing. Today, we are experiencing a different,...

JON ROBIN BAITZ

2009-03-01 00:00:00

Were I to throw my hat in the ring as culture czar/NEA head, I would start with the following: I would attempt to pass legislation on a special tax dedicated to the NEA for all artists who make over half a million dollars a year from their work. I would...

The chief art critic for Time became known for blasting art-world darlings such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons, artists he felt exemplified the triumph of the marketplace and celebrity.

2012-08-11 11:25:06

From left, Inspector Robert Hughes, Hartford Police officer Dan Blumes and State Police Detective Carmine Verno, all of the Hartford Shooting Task Force on Farmington Avenue in Hartford where they had pulled a car over Wednesday night.

2012-08-07 09:10:00

Art critic and writer Robert Hughes died at 74 years old after battling a long illness.

2012-08-06 17:59:09