Robert Hughes: Australian Art Critic

Australian Broadcasting Corp. Dept: Hughes died Monday at a hospital in the Bronx after a long illness, according to a statement from his wife, Doris. He was critically injured in a 1999 car accident and never fully recovered. Robert Hughes in a 2006 interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. The influential Australian art critic died Monday, according to CBC. "They wanted somebody who could actually write about art in a way that wasn't but here I sound like I m blowing my own trumpet in a way that was not condescending and was intelligible to people who were not art experts," he said in a 2006 interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp and australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes, author of The Fatal Shore and Shock of the New , has died in New York. He was 74. Hughes, an Australian, worked in London before moving to New York in 1970 where he made his name as an art critic for Time magazine. He wrote for the magazine until 2000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.