About Holland Cotter
Holland Cotter is a chief art critic at the New York Times, and has been writing for the Times since 1992. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Criticism in 2009. In 2010, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Writing by the College Art Association. He was for many years a contributing editor at Art in America and an editorial associate at Art News.
He received an BA from Harvard College, where he studied poetry with Robert Lowell; an MA in art history from the City University of New York; and an M Phil in art history from Columbia University, where he focused on early Indian Buddhist art, studied Sanskrit, and taught South Asian and Islamic art. He also has an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the Maryland Institute College of Art.