Holland Cotter is an American writer and co-chief art critic with The New York Times.
Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.
from Harvard College in 1970, where he studied English literature under poet Robert Lowell and was an editor of the Harvard Advocate literary magazine.
[1] Cotter was a freelance writer for the New York Times from 1992 to 1997 before being hired as a full-time art critic in 1998.
Among his Pulitzer-winning pieces were ones written as a result of a trip to China prompted by the 2008 Summer Olympics, including an examination of the Chinese museum scene and an account of art at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang.