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.