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The April issue of the New Criterion<\/em> has my article<\/a> about the Santa Barbara Museum of Art debacle\u2014the eleventh-hour cancellation of the “Three American Painters: Then and Now” exhibition, and the firing of its curator Dr. Eik Kahng. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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