Dave Hickey
| Dave Hickey | |
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| Born |
5 December 1940 Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Occupation | Art critic |
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| Spouse(s) | Libby Lumpkin |
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| Website | www |
David Hickey (born December 5, 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an art critic who has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Nicknamed "The Bad Boy Of Art Criticism” and “The Enfant Terrible Of Art Criticism”, he was formerly Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.
Hickey graduated from Texas Christian University in 1961 and received his MA from the University of Texas two years later. In 1989, SMU Press published Prior Convictions, a volume of his short fiction. He was owner-director of 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place', an art gallery in Austin, Texas and director of 'Reese Palley Gallery' in New York. He has served as Executive Editor for Art in America magazine, as contributing editor to The Village Voice, as Staff Songwriter for Glaser Publications in Nashville and as Arts Editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He has written for most major cultural publications in the US and abroad. These include Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. Hickey regularly published "Revisions", a monthly column for Art in America. He also writes for European publications like The London Review of Books, Frieze International (London), Situation (Paris), and Parkett (Zurich).
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