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Subsequently he graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1973.
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Walter Robinson
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Robinson was a contributor to Art in America (1980-1996), the art editor of the East Village Eye, a founding editor of Art-Rite magazine and the founding editor-in-chief of Artnet Magazine (1996-2012). He also co-produced the public-access television show, GalleryBeat. Robinson was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and raised in Tulsa.
He moved to New York to attend Columbia University in 1968.
He was a long term resident of Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side. Robinson is also a postmodern painter whose work has been exhibited at Semaphore, Metro Pictures Gallery, Brooke Alexander Gallery, Haunch of Venison and numerous other venues.
Also, he produced a series of spin paintings. During that period he was associated with the artist group Colab.
In 2000, Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring, the owners of the Metro Pictures Gallery, presented a retrospective of paintings that Robinson had made in the 1980s.
Firecat Projects in Chicago presented a show of his paintings in 2012. In 2013 he had a one-man show at the Dorian Grey Gallery in New York City and in 2014 he received a retrospective exhibition at University Galleries at Illinois State University.
