Its principal purpose today is to advance the radical Left's agenda for the cultural revolution that has already completed its "long march" through the universities and is currently in the process of annexing many other institutions of cultural life—the art museums, for example, where the revolution has made enormous inroads in programs and acquisitions, and in the policies of the foundations, corporations, and agencies of government that support museums. Kramer faulted the Whitney Biennial for what he saw as a preoccupation with gender and ethnic identity. He wrote that the biennials "seem to be governed by a positive hostility toward — a really visceral distaste for — anything that might conceivably engage the eye in a significant or pleasurable visual experience." Death Hilton Kramer died of heart failure on March 27, 2012, in Harpswell, Maine, two days after his 84th birthday. His only immediate survivor was his wife, Esta Kramer (1929–2020). Works 1973. The Age of the Avant-Garde. (). 1985. The Revenge of the Philistines. (). 1997 (coedited with Roger Kimball). The Future of the European Past. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 1999. The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2002 (coedited with Roger Kimball). The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee (). 2003, "Remembering the Gulag" (review of Anne Applebaum, 2003. Gulag: A History, Doubleday), The New Criterion 21 (9): 2006 The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1985-2005 () References External links New Criterion biography On The Paintings of Bert Carpenter Hilton Kramer, A Man of Arts & Letters, The New York Sun, June 9, 2006. Hilton Kramer dies at 84; polarizing but widely read art critic, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2012. Obituary: Hilton Kramer, art critic and neoconservative World Socialist Web Site May 3, 2012 The critic who makes them cower, The Hour, June 28, 1995. Hilton Kramer and the 'Correction of Taste', Wall Street Journal'', March 27, 2012. OPEN EVENT: Hilton Kramer Memorial the legacy of Hilton Kramer Kramer of federal funding of the arts Jed Perl at The New Republic April 11 2012 How Hilton Kramer Got Lost in the Culture Wars Terry Teachout at the Wall Street Journal April 12 2012 When Criticism is No Laughing Matter Hilton Kramer & the critical temper; Roger Kimball; The New Criterion, May 2012 1928 births 2012 deaths American