Criticism in the Expanded Field - Roberta Smith

Roberta Smith is an art critic for The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. Smith has written for The New York Times since 1986 and is the first woman to hold the co-Chief Art Critic title. She has worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and The Paula Cooper Art Gallery. She has written exhibition reviews for Artforum, Art in America, The Village Voice, and other publications. In 2003, the College Art Association awarded Smith the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. In 2010, she was ranked 80 in ArtReview’s guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art.