In Memoriam: David Shapiro (1942 - 2024)

David Shapiro, a poet and art historian who was widely admired for his erudition and indelibly remembered — to his chagrin — as the defiant, cigar-wielding student in a photo that was taken during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University and came to represent the era’s revolutionary zeal, died May 4 at a hospital in the Bronx. He was 77.

The cause was Pa…