Robert Hughes (1938–2012) was an art critic and television writer. In the award-winning documentary series, The Shock of The New, Hughes recounted the development of modern art since the Impressionists; in The Fatal Shore, he explored the history of his native Australia. Hughes’s memoir, Things I Didn’t Know, was published in 2006.
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Master Builders
September 27, 2007
Makers of Modern Architecture
by Martin Filler
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The God of Realism
April 6, 2006
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Why Watch It, Anyway?
February 16, 1995
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The Medium Inquisitor
October 21, 1993
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 (1986) edited by John O'Brian
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 19451949 (1986) edited by John O'Brian
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 19501956 edited by John O'Brian
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 19591969 edited by John O'Brian
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Masterpiece Theater
March 4, 1993
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Thomas Hoving
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Art, Morals, and Politics
April 23, 1992
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The Art of Frank Auerbach
October 11, 1990
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The Liberal Goya
June 29, 1989
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment 9July 16, 1989). an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (May
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment catalog of the exhibition by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, by Eleanor A. Sayre
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The Patron Saint of Neo-Pop
June 1, 1989
America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
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On Lucian Freud
August 13, 1987
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Something Fishy in the Hamptons
October 23, 1986
Men’s Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork by Peter Matthiessen
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On Art and Money
December 6, 1984
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There’s No Geist like the Zeitgeist
October 27, 1983
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The Rise of Andy Warhol
February 18, 1982
Andy Warhol: Das Graphische Werk, 1962-1980 catalogue by Hermann Wünsche
Andy Warhol: A Print Retrospective an exhibition at Castelli Graphics, November 20 to December 22, 1981
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He Was French
January 24, 1980
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Only in America
December 20, 1979
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
by Ernest Samuels
Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest
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Mark Rothko: An Exchange
February 8, 1979
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Blue Chip Sublime
December 21, 1978
The Legacy of Mark Rothko
by Lee Seldes
Mark Rothko: 1903-1970, A Retrospective
by Diane Waldman