Stephen Koch, a writer and critic who tirelessly shepherded the works of an overlooked photographer to global prominence, establishing Peter Hujar as one of his art form's greats, died on Feb. 24 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84, reported The New York Times. Known largely to cognoscenti -- including Susan Sontag, who wrote the introduction to his first book, in 1976 -- Hujar was an unusually penetrating chronicler of New York's downtown gay scene in the 1970s and '80s. At the time of his death from AIDS in 1987, his work was shown infrequently and he could barely afford to do his laundry,

  Paul Klee | Other Possible Worlds at The Jewish Museum Paul Klee, who was not Jewish, was one of the first artists the Nazis declared “degenerate,” a descriptor applied to the abstract artists, who often were Jewish, that the regime sought to smear as sick, immoral and corrupting to the idea of German culture that Hitler promoted, As noted in the Forward, 17 of his works were featured in the infamous Degenerate Art exhibition organized by Nazi leaders in 1937,...