17 Facts About Dave Hickey

David Hickey was an American art critic who wrote for many American publications including Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair.

Dave Hickey was nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism" and "The Enfant Terrible of Art Criticism".

Dave Hickey graduated from Texas Christian University in 1961 and received his MA from the University of Texas two years later.

Dave Hickey was owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place, an art gallery in Austin, Texas, and director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York.

Dave Hickey served as executive editor for Art in America magazine, as contributing editor to The Village Voice, as staff songwriter for Glaser Publications in Nashville, and as the arts editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Dave Hickey wrote for most major cultural publications in the United States and abroad, including Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

Dave Hickey regularly published "Revisions", a monthly column for Art in America.

Dave Hickey wrote for European publications like The London Review of Books, frieze, Situation, and Parkett.

Dave Hickey was known for his arguments against academicism and in favor of the effects of rough-and-tumble free markets on art.

In 2009, Dave Hickey published a revised and updated version of The Invisible Dragon, adding an introduction that addressed changes in the art world since the book's original publication, as well as a new concluding essay.

Interviews with Dave Hickey have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Bomb, the New Art Examiner, Public Events, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Art Newspaper, and other magazines.

Dave Hickey has been interviewed several times on topics such as art and Las Vegas by the BBC, PBS, and NPR.

In 2014, Dave Hickey began making posts on Facebook during an illness.

Dave Hickey died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 12,2021, at the age of 82.

In 1994, Dave Hickey received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association.

In 2003, Dave Hickey was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Nevada, Reno, Libraries.

Dave Hickey won a Peabody Award for his 2006 documentary about Andy Warhol for the American Masters series, which aired on PBS in 2006.