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Culture The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
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Books Sitting shiva for his wife, an overcaffeinated academic is scalded by grief
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Books Whose art is it anyway? Inside the cultural battle between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters
Since the war broke out, debate has raged over the political meaning of art
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The onetime critic for the Village Voice will be remembered for a half-century of service to the theater
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Art This devastatingly brilliant and unconscionably awful book will delight and appall
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Culture Did Chuck Woolery just have a ‘Hitler was right’ moment?
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