Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism (he was a finalist for the prize in 1991, 2001 and 2007). In 2020, he also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Art Journalism from the Rabkin Foundation. Knight received the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism from the College Art Assn., becoming the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years. He has appeared on CBS¡¯ ¡°60 Minutes,¡± PBS¡¯ ¡°NewsHour,¡± NPR¡¯s ¡°Morning Edition¡± and ¡°All Things Considered¡± and CNN and was featured in the 2009 documentary movie about the controversial relocation of the Barnes Foundation¡¯s art collection, ¡°The Art of the Steal.¡±
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