Walter Robinson, painter and Artnet Magazine founder, dies at 75

Walter Robinson, a well-known American artist and critic, has sadly died, according to Sébastien Bertrand gallery. He was born in Delaware in 1950 and moved to New York in 1968 to study at Columbia University. Later, in 1972, he joined the Whitney Independent Study Programme as an art critic. Starting his painting journey in the 1970s, Robinson was associated with the Pictures Generation, a group featuring artists like Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman, who critiqued Western media. His work often mixed consumer imagery, and as a critic, he wrote for Art in America, co-founded Art-Rite, and edited Artnet Magazine from 1996 to 2012. He coined 'zombie formalism' in 2014 and authored notable books like Instant Art History (1994) and Most Art Sucks (1998).