Holland cotter and joe roesch

American art critic

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

Life and work

Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, 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 IndianBuddhist 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.