About Richard Cork
Richard Cork (born 25 March 1947) is a British art historian, editor, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator. He has been an art critic for the Evening Standard, The Listener, The Times and the New Statesman. Cork was also editor for Studio International. He is a past Turner Prize judge. == Early life == Richard Cork was educated at Kingswood School, Bath (1960–1964). He read art history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was awarded his doctorate in 1978. == Career == Cork was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge from 1980 to 1990, and the Henry Moore Senior Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1992 to 1995. He then served as Chair of the Visual Arts Panel at the Arts Council of England until 1998. Committees he has sat on have included that of the Hayward Gallery, the British Council's Visual Art Committee and the advisory council for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He has also been on the panel of judges for the Turner Prize and other major art prizes.
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