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 ::On page 119 of Design and Crime: and other diatribes, Hal Foster states ""Tom Wolfe notoriously trashed all late-modernist art as a critical scam, a ""painted word"" contrived in 'Cultureberg' (his anti-Semitic slam against Greenberg, Rosenberg and Steinberg)."" So, Foster, a good source for us, makes the claim that Wolfe clearly means three Jewish critics controlling the art world in New York. That it's about words clearly alludes to intellectuals. Now, can we make that final jump? I'm not sure the wording allows for this. We could just quote Foster directly. I'll keep searching for other sources.  "