“Primary Structures” Turns 60

On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum’s “Primary Structures” exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: “Here are 42 American and British artists,” Kramer observed, “who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary—the whole panoply of individual expressive devices