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Article: Kramer versus everybody. (conservative art critic Hilton Kramer)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- February 13, 1995
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Critics: A conservative writer lambasts the liberal art world. Guess what? They like it. Sort of.
I'D NEVER MET HIM BEFORE, but I knew exactly who he was when he came in," says Charlayne Haynes, public-relations director at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art. "He looked exactly like a person who'd be named Hilton Kramer." The usually bow-tied, donnish Kramer, 66, is the art critic the galleries and museums in New York keep an eye out for. A good guess why would be that they want to shutter the shop before he gets there. Kramer, in print, had recently called Roy Lichtenstein "the most vacuous of our Pop painters" and Robert Mapplethorpe "the most overrated ...