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2006:

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   A conversation with art critic Robert Hughes

   with Robert Hughes on Nov 21, 2006

   Duration

   53 min

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2003:

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   A conversation with art critic Robert Hughes

   with Robert Hughes on Dec 2, 2003

   Duration

   14 min

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2002:

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   A panel discussion about the summer's books with guest...

   with Malcolm Jones, Jerome Kramer and Robert Hughes on Jul 3, 2002

   Duration

   27 min

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2000:

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   A conversation with Robert Hughes

   with Robert Hughes on Sep 6, 2000

   Duration

   18 min

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1998:

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   An hour panel discussion about the most influential artist...

   with Norman Pearlstine, Sheryl Crow, Robert Hughes and more on May 25, 1998

   Duration

   52 min

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   1 comment

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1997:

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   An interview with Robert Hughes

   with Robert Hughes on May 22, 1997

   Duration

   54 min

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1995:

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   A discussion of popular entertainment and culture

   with William Bennett and Robert Hughes on Jun 8, 1995

   Duration

   60 min

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Robert J. Hughes is an Australian-American art critic. He studied arts and architecture at Sydney University, during which time he made a name for himself within the Sydney “Push” – a progressive group of artists, writers, intellectuals and drinkers. Among the group were two other blazingly witty and incisive cultural observers: Germaine Greer and Clive James. Incredibly, Hughes was commissioned to write a history of Australian painting while an undergraduate and dropped out of university.

He left Australia for Britain in the early 1960’s, writing for such publications as the “Spectator”, the “Telegraph”, The Times of London” and the Observer, before landing the position of art critic for “Time” magazine in 1970.

Important books he has written include “The Shock of the New” (1981), “The Fatal Shore” (1987), “Culture of Complaint” (1993) and “American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America” (1997), which reviewed the history of American art since the Revolution.

Hughes’ 2002 documentary on the painter Francisco Goya, Goya: Crazy Like a Genius, was broadcast on the first night of the BBC’s domestic digital service, partly as a consequence of the high status Hughes’ documentaries have acquired with television audiences over the years.

Hughes published the first part of his memoirs, Things I Didn’t Know, in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(critic))