Christopher Knight is an American art critic for the Los Angeles Times.
[1] He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism from the Dorothy and Leo Rabkin Foundation in 2020, and the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism from the College Art Association,[2] the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years.
Knight has appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes, PBS' Newshour, NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and CNN, and he was featured in The Art of the Steal,[3] the 2009 documentary on the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times in 1989, Knight served as art critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner (1980–1989), as assistant director for public information at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1979–1980) and as curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1976–1979).
From 1986 to 1989 he also served as a program advisor to the Lannan Foundation with Museum of Modern Art curator John Elderfield and art collector and philanthropist Gifford Philips.