Hilton Kramer: An art critic dedicated to truth, however unfashionable
By Roger Kimball Hilton Kramer, who died Tuesday age 84, was a fiery ornament on the nation’s cultural landscape for more than four decades. The hallmarks of Kramer’s criticism were clarity of expression, aesthetic discrimination and forthright independence. Forthrightness has never been a popular commodity; in an age of political correctness, it is especially unfashionable. […]