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Roberta Smith was born on 1947 in New York City, US, is an American art critic (born 1948). Discover Roberta Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Art critic
Age 77 years old
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Born 1947
Birthday 1947
Birthplace New York City, US
Nationality United States

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1948

Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art.

She is the first woman to hold that position.

Born in 1948 in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas.

Smith studied at Grinnell College in Iowa.

1968

Her career in the arts started in 1968, while an undergraduate summer intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

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.

1971

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.

1975

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.

1986

Smith began writing for The New York Times in 1986, and became the newspaper's co-chief art critic in 2011.

1992

Smith married Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York magazine, in 1992.

The couple lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village.

1995

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.

2012

In 2012, she received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.

2017

In 2017, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago awarded Smith her second honorary doctorate.