Kramer: Johnson Was “Evil Influence”

Hilton Kramer believes more attention should have been paid to architect Philip Johnson’s admiration for the Nazis. “I daresay that for most of us, this chronicle of perfidy amounts to something far more significant than a ‘passing admiration for Hitler.’ The fact is that notwithstanding his aesthetic and intellectual talents, Philip Johnson remained at heart a cynic, an immoralist and a profoundly corrupted character—in short, an evil influence.”