A Memorial Ceremony for Robert Hughes at the Met

The life of Robert Hughes, the art critic and historian who died in August at the age of 74, will be remembered by a group of writers, editors and fellow critics who knew him, at a ceremony on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The memorial, in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, will include remarks by Tina Brown, Leon Wieseltier, Peter Carey, Peter Matthiessen, Simon Schama and Michael Kimmelman. Jeremy Denk will perform at the piano. The ceremony is open to the public.

Mr. Hughes served as the chief art critic for Time magazine for more than three decades and his books and television documentaries about the history of modernism, Goya, Rome and his native country, Australia, made him one of the most recognized critical voices of his generation.