Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes dies
Influential Australian art critic, historian and writer Robert Hughes
has died aged 74 in New York after a long illness, a statement from his
family said Tuesday.
Hughes, whom the New York Times once proclaimed the world's most
famous art critic, died at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx on Monday.
"He had been very ill for some time," said a statement from his wife
Doris Downes, who was with him when he died. "Robert Hughes, critic,
historian, fisherman, has died in New York City. Farewell my dear old
mate.
Rest in peace," tweeted Malcolm Turnbull, an Australian politician
who is married to Hughes' niece Lucy.
Born in Sydney in 1938, Hughes studied arts and architecture at
Sydney University at the same time as feminist Germaine Greer and fellow
writer Clive James.
AFP
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