Holland Cotter

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Holland Cotter
Born1947 (age 77–78)
Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater Harvard College; City University of New York; Columbia University
Occupation(s)Writer and art critic
Notable credit The New York Times
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Holland Cotter (born 1947), is an American writer and co-chief art critic with The New York Times . In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

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Life and work

Cotter was born in Connecticut, United States, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] He earned his A.B. in 1970 from Harvard College, where he studied English literature under poet Robert Lowell and was an editor of the Harvard Advocate literary magazine. [1] [2] His first art course was an anthropology course on primitive art, which led to his first of many visits to Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. [2]

Cotter earned an MA in American modernism from the City University of New York in 1990 and a M. Phil in early Indian Buddhist art from Columbia University in 1992, where he also taught Indian art and Islamic art. [1] [3] He has been a writer and editor for the New York Arts Journal, Art in America , and Art News . [1]

Cotter was a freelance writer for The New York Times from 1992 to 1997, before being hired as a full-time art critic in 1998. [1] Specifically hired for his expertise in Asian art, [4] he is credited with exposing contemporary Indian and Chinese art to a Western audience. Among his Pulitzer-winning pieces were ones written as a result of a trip to China prompted by the 2008 Summer Olympics, including an examination of the Chinese museum scene and an account of art at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang. [4] In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography: Holland Cotter". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Levitan, Rebecca J. (April 22, 2009). "Pulitzer Committee Honors Alumnus". Harvard Crimson . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Holland Cotter." The Complete Marquis Who's Who . Marquis Who's Who, 2010. Gale Biography In Context. Web. August 20, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Jalon, Allan M. (2008). "Object Lessons: Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen". Columbia Journalism Review . 47 (4): 67–9.
  5. ↑ "Holland Cotter of The New York Times". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
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