PERTH, AUSTRALIA.- Art critic Robert Hughes did not turn up in court Tuesday for a hearing into dangerous driving charges he faces linked to a car wreck three years ago that nearly killed him. Prosecutor Alan Sefton told Perth Magistrates Court that Hughes’ lawyer, who also did not appear, had told him the New York-based Time magazine art critic was too ill to travel to Australia but would do so when he was well. Magistrate Norman Roberts set July 4 as the date for the next hearing. If Hughes fails to appear, he will be arrested next time he enters Western Australia state. Australian-born Hughes, 61, was charged with dangerous driving following a head-on collision with a car near Broome, 1,700 kilometers north of Western Australia’s capital city, Perth, in May 1999. The art critic and author of ’The Fatal Shore,’ an acclaimed book about Australia’s history as a British penal colony, was filming a TV series for the British Broadcasting Corp. at the time of the crash.