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Robert Hughes

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Robert Hughes & the 'dumb show of modern art' (tailpiece from 'The Shock of the New')

 

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Australian critic Robert Hughes dead at 74

 

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ROBERT HUGHES (art critic) 1978

 

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Robert Hughes interviews David Hockney

 

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Tracey Emin, Bedgasm remix, humility and truth interview with Robert Hughes

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. His best seller The Fatal Shore (1986) is a study of the British penal colonies and early history of Australia. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world."