The art critic Sharon Mizota (smizota) was angered and dismayed by Jerry Saltz’s Instagram post on the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “There was no real alternative,” according to Saltz, but Mizota reached out to her father’s friend Howard Kakita, a “hibakusha” or survivor of the bomb, for some perspective. Saltz wrote that the bombings were “acts of mass death and unimaginable suffering,” but for Kakita and other hibakusha, such suffering is still as clear as the summer sky on August 6, 1945. If nothing else, it’s the lack of empathy that rankles most about what New York Magazine’s art critic had to say. “As a fellow art critic,” writes Mizota, “I understand what we do as an endeavor to stay in touch with what makes us human — all of us. Of course, not everyone sees it that way. Criticism has advanced imperialist and white supremacist viewpoints as much as it has reminded us of our common humanity, and our public discourse is only becoming more ...