Thomas McEvilley, 73, Critic And Scholar Who Shattered The Notion Of ‘Primitivism’

McEvilley’s review of a 1984 MoMA show, and the responses in Artforum, “were the opening salvos in an argument about multiculturalism that would define American art for the rest of the 1980s and ’90s. When the dust had settled, it was clear who the winner was, and it was also clear that a new era in thinking about art had begun.”