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- Birth nameRobert Studley Forrest Hughes
- Robert Hughes was born on July 28, 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was a writer, known for Crumb (1994), Caravaggio (1976) and American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America (1997). He was married to Doris Downes, Victoria Whistler and Danne Patricia Emerson. He died on August 6, 2012 in The Bronx, New York, USA.
- SpousesDoris Downes(2001 - August 6, 2012) (his death)Victoria Whistler(1981 - 2001) (divorced)Danne Patricia Emerson(1967 - 1981) (divorced, 1 child)
- Educated by the Jesuits.
- Art critic for TIME magazine since 1970.
- He was awarded the AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Art and the promotion of Australian culture.
- New York City, New York
- [on Marc Chagall] He had a lyric, flyaway, enraptured imagination, allied to an enviable fluency of hand.
- [on Albert Speer] Speer's most successful piece of architectural theatre was the brilliant feat of announcing the Führer at Nürnberg by training hundreds of searchlight beams up into the sky, like Doric columns of light. It was a magnificent conception which, 60 years later, would be plagiarised by the Americans to mark the disappearance of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. No credit was given to Speer, who was dead by then.
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