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Pulitzer-Winning Art Critic Christopher Knight Retires From the Los Angeles Times

His exit underscores how rare full-time newspaper art critics have become.

Overview

  • His final staff day is November 28, with his last Los Angeles Times column scheduled for December 1.
  • Knight spent 36 years at the paper across a roughly 45-year career in journalism.
  • Colleagues and industry reports describe him as one of the last full-time art critics at a U.S. daily newspaper.
  • He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for work that scrutinized LACMA’s redesign and its impact on the museum’s mission.
  • Knight says he will continue writing beyond daily journalism and his honors include the Rabkin Foundation’s 2020 lifetime award carrying a $50,000 purse.