Roberta Smith | |
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 Smith in 2014 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) New York City, US |
| Occupation | Art critic |
| Education | Grinnell College |
| Period | 1970s–present |
| Subject | Art |
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Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. [1] [2] She is the first woman to hold that position. [3] [4] [5]
Born in 1948 in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. [6] Smith studied at Grinnell College in Iowa. [6] Her career in the arts started in 1968, while an undergraduate summer intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. [6]
In 1968-1969 she participated in the Art History/Museum Studies track of the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) where she met and developed an affinity for Donald Judd and became interested in minimal art. [7] [8] After graduation, she returned to New York City in 1971 to take a secretarial job at the Museum of Modern Art, followed by part-time assistant jobs to Judd in the early 1970s, and Paula Cooper for the first three years that she had her Paula Cooper Gallery, beginning in 1972.
While at the Paula Cooper Gallery Smith wrote exhibition reviews for Artforum , and subsequently for Art in America , the Village Voice and other publications. She has written and spoken about Judd on many occasions throughout her career, and upon his death in 1995, penned his New York Times obituary. [9] [10] [11]
Smith began writing for The New York Times in 1986, and became the newspaper's co-chief art critic in 2011. [12] [3] She has written many essays for catalogues and monographs on contemporary artists, and wrote the featured essay in the 1975 Judd catalogue raisonné published by the National Gallery of Canada. She writes not only about contemporary art but about the visual arts in general, including decorative arts, popular and outsider art, design and architecture.
Smith is a longtime advocate for museums to be free and open to the public. [13] In 2012, she received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. [14] In 2017, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago awarded Smith her second honorary doctorate. [15]
Smith married Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York magazine, in 1992. [19] The couple live in an apartment in Greenwich Village. [19] [20]
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I'm afraid this was especially true when I went to Grinnell [College in Grinnell, Iowa]. I wrote the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington to see about being in their summer intern program. They accepted me, although they were a bit startled to have someone come all the way from Kansas
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