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Article: Conservative critic sets his sights on low culture; caustic and unapologetic, veteran art critic Hilton Kramer has made a name for himself as a commentator on the "moral obtuseness" inherent in 20th-century American life. (includes related article on Kramer's harsh and daring comments in his weekly New York Post column 'Time Watch')
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- Insight on the News
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- November 21, 1994
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Caustic and unapologetic, veteran art critic Hilton Kramer has made a name for himself as a commentator on the "moral obtuseness" inherent in 20th-century American life.
At first glance, Hilton Kramer seems cut from quiet professorial cloth, bookish and polite. But the mischievous gleam in his eye betrays an acerbic wit that has colored his cultural criticism for more than three decades.
The erudite Kramer, founding editor of the New Criterion, a conservative monthly providing a "dissenting voice on the arts and contemporary culture," laces his conversation with frequent allusions to "the rot that has set in in our major institutions" -- universities and ...