Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 July 1938
CountryAustralia
taste should smarter
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?
rhinos giving vision
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
portraits trout rubens
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
drawing desire skins
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.
dope gossip
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.