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Australian art critic Robert Hughes dies aged 74
Source: BBC
Influential Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes has died in New York after a long illness. He was 74.
Mr Hughes made major contributions to the world of art and the telling of Australian history.
In 1980, he presented the landmark BBC TV series The Shock of the New -an insight into the development of art since the Impressionists.
The New York Times newspaper once described him as the most famous art critic in the world.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19158897
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Australian art critic Robert Hughes dies aged 74 (Original Post)
alp227
Aug 2012
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Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)1. His series about Australia was wonderful
kwassa
(23,340 posts)2. A blowhard, but an interesting blowhard.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. Got viciously anti-left in his later years, too.
Not sure why.
Still, he was interesting.
CBHagman
(16,986 posts)3. Oh, no.
I so enjoyed his commentary.
Godspeed, Mr. H.