13 Facts About Richard Cork

Richard Cork was born on 25 March 1947 and is a British art historian, editor, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator.

Richard Cork has been an art critic for the Evening Standard, The Listener, The Times and the New Statesman.

Richard Cork read art history at the University of Cambridge and was awarded his doctorate in 1978.

Richard Cork then served as Chair of the Visual Arts Panel at the Arts Council of England until 1998.

Richard Cork has been on the panel of judges for the Turner Prize and other major art prizes.

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Richard Cork's broadcasting work includes reviews of art exhibitions for BBC Radio 4's Front Row, Night Waves on Radio 3 and The Green Room on Radio 2.

Richard Cork regularly appears on the BBC Two art series The Private Life of a Masterpiece.

Richard Cork has curated exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Tate, Serpentine Gallery, and Hayward galleries in London and, elsewhere in Europe, in Paris, Brussels and Berlin.

Richard Cork has a specialist interest in the Vorticist movement and his book on them was for some time the standard text on the movement.

In 1995 Richard Cork was given a National Art Collections Fund Award for his international exhibition Art and the First World War, held in London and Berlin.

Richard Cork is currently a Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

In 2012, Richard Cork wrote "The Healing Presence of Art", an illustrated history of Western art in hospitals.

Richard Cork is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.