Peter Schjeldahl, the long-running art critic for the New Yorker and a major voice in American arts criticism, has died aged 80. “Criticism joins poetry, for me, in having a civic duty to limber up the common word stock, keeping good words in play,†he said in an interview in Artforum. “My sidekick is the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.“
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