Article: President Bush has conferred the National Humanities Medal on some excitingly deserving recipients, including Hilton Kramer.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* President Bush has conferred the National Humanities Medal on some excitingly deserving recipients, including Hilton Kramer. Mr. Kramer may be the finest art critic in the United States, and he is one of its best journalists. A child of immigrants from Russia, he worked on the New York Times for 18 years, mainly as chief art critic. Then he did something shocking, almost unimaginable: He left that exalted perch to found his own, small journal, The New Criterion. (Mr. Kramer founded the magazine ...

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