Hilton Kramer (born 1928) is a U.S. cultural critic and commentator. In recent years he has argued historically against Stalinism in the 2003 book review 'Remembering the Gulag', and (in defence of the anti-Stalinist views of the renowned art critic Clement Greenberg) in The Twilight of the Intellectuals (1999).

He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of Arts Magazine, art critic of The Nation magazine and from 1965 to 1982 as an art critic for the New York Times.

In 1982 he left The New York Times to found The New Criterion magazine, where he works as chief editor and publisher. He has also been published in the "Art and Antiques Magazine" and The New York Observer.

Kramer lives in both Manhattan and Westport, Connecticut.

Works

• The Age of the Avant-Garde, 1973 (ISBN 0374102384).
• The Revenge of the Philistines, 1985 (ISBN 0029184703).
• The Future of the European Past, co-edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer. Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1997.
• The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1999, {ISBN 1566632226
• The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, co-edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer. Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2002 (ISBN 1566634652).
• ‘Remembering the Gulag’ (review of Anne Applebaum; Gulag: A History, Doubleday, 2003), The New Criterion, Vol. 21, No. 9, May 2003 //www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/may03/kramer.htm

1928 births | Living people