WM | whitehot magazine of contemporary art | Donald Kuspit on Gerrit Rietveld’s Red Blue Chair 1918-1923

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Gerrit Rietveld, "Red and Blue Chairs", 1918–1923. Painted wood, 34 1/8 x 26 x 33 inches (86.7 x 66 x 83.8 cm), seat height: 13 inches (33 cm). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York ©2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Bedricht, Amsterdam.

, January 2021

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Donald Kuspit is one of America's most outstanding art critics. In 1983, he won the prestigious Frank Juvet Mather Award for Excellence in Art Criticism from the University Art Association. In 1993, he received an honorary doctorate of art from Davidson College, a doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996, and an honorary doctorate from the New York Institute of Art in 2007. In 1997, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design awarded him the Visual Arts Outstanding Service Award. In 1998, he received an honorary doctorate in humanitarian correspondence from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000, he gave a Getty lecture at the University of Southern California. In 2005, he was a Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 2008, he won the 10th Annual Art Excellence Award of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation. In 2013, he won the first annual art criticism excellence award from the Gabarron Foundation. He has won scholarships from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Committee, National Arts Foundation, National Humanities Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation and Asian Cultural Council.