""He possesses a quiet, encyclopaedic knowledge of art, and in column after column he connected the dots of culture, history, folklore, civics and psychology in razor-sharp assessments of what a piece of art really means, or how a particular exhibition is poised to change the narrative around a longstanding or misguided idea. In short, he is everything a truly excellent critic should be.""
""It's impossible to overstate the loss Knight's departure represents for the paper and Los Angeles, or what a tireless, generous, inspiring colleague he is,""
Christopher Knight is retiring after more than 40 years as an art critic, 36 of them at the Los Angeles Times, with his final day on 28 November. He is one of the last full-time art critics at a US daily and has been a prominent voice in the art world for nearly half a century. He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism and a $50,000 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation the same year. He was a three-time Pulitzer finalist before winning. His prize-winning work critiqued a proposed overhaul of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and focused on Peter Zumthor’s designs for the $720 million David Geffen Galleries. He received a prestigious College Art Association award for art criticism in 1997 and published two books of his criticism.
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