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A Critic's View

Lipstick Building Needs More Than Cosmetic Surgery

The Lipstick Building rises from the midtown skyline in sleek, tubular perfection. But its falls have been just as dramatic. 
By Laura Kusisto

Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics

It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unknown” painter—unknown, that is, to the
By Hilton Kramer

Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics

It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unknown” painter—unknown, that is, to the
By Hilton Kramer

Years After Death, Ms. Matthíasdóttir Surfacing at Last

By Hilton Kramer

Painter Dozier Bell Reaches to the Skies And Finds the Divine

By Hilton Kramer

Alex Katz’s Attack Of Nine-Foot Women Cheerfully Grotesque

By Hilton Kramer

Two Rockwell Kents: A Moby-Dick Etcher And Stalin Admirer

By Hilton Kramer

Some Born to Collect, And John Wilmerding Apparently Was One

By Hilton Kramer

Oh, That Weltschmerz! German Expressionism About Dark, Not Light

By Hilton Kramer

At National Academy, Rather Calm Rendition Of Our Great Storms

By Hilton Kramer

Why Cartier-Bresson, The Peintre Manqué, Became Photographer

By Hilton Kramer

Painter John Walker Evokes Maine Coast

By Hilton Kramer

Leave Kids at Home For Nerdrum Exhibit-It’s Full of DespairAuthor

By Hilton Kramer

Rudy Burkhardt’s Photographs of N.Y. Captured an Age

By Hilton Kramer

European Painters Spurred Evolution Among the Americans

By Hilton Kramer

The Critic

By Hilton Kramer

Met Shows the Flags Of Childe Hassam-And Great Deal More

By Hilton Kramer

There Was No Shame Imitating DaVinci Or Even Caravaggio

By Hilton Kramer

Dealer Pierre Matisse, Henri’s Collector Son, Shown at Metropolitan

By Hilton Kramer

Modigliani’s Back-So Are Those Eyes, Elongated Torsos

By Hilton Kramer
Mr. Karp in 2006. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

A Lover of Beauty, Guy Pène du Bois Painted His Ideal

By Hilton Kramer

John Constable Liked Painting Landscape, But Looked to Sky

By Hilton Kramer

Mystic Morris Graves: His Birds, Flowers Have Painterly Weight

By Hilton Kramer

A Commuter’s Paradise Nudes in a Maine Garden

By Hilton Kramer
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