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Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art.Christopher Bolen, "Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz", Interview magazine, undated. She is the first woman to hold that position at the Times. Articles in The New York Times, accessed May 18, 2009 Interview in the Brooklyn Rail, accessed May 18, 2009
While at the Paula Cooper Gallery Smith wrote exhibition reviews for Artforum, and subsequently for Art in America, the Village Voice and other publications. She has written and spoken about Judd on many occasions throughout her career, and upon his death in 1995, penned his New York Times obituary.
Smith began writing for The New York Times in 1986, and became the newspaper's co-chief art critic in 2011. She has written many essays for catalogues and monographs on contemporary artists, and wrote the featured essay in the 1975 Judd catalogue raisonné published by the National Gallery of Canada. She writes not only about contemporary art but about the visual arts in general, including decorative arts, popular and outsider art, design and architecture.
Smith is a longtime advocate for museums to be free and open to the public. In 2012, she received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2017, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago awarded Smith her second honorary doctorate.
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