Roger Kimball introduces the December issue
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Features
Art: a special section
Unmaking the Met
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On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art: a special section
Acheiropoieta
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On art not made with hands.
Art: a special section
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand”
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On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
Art: a special section
A scheme of terraces
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On the long life of an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Art: a special section
Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush
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On artistic solitude & on A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.
Art: a special section
Stanford White’s surfaces
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On the New York architect’s attention to detail.
Art: a special section
David Hockney at the Morgan
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On “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Art: a special section
An interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas
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A conversation with the founders of Triglyph Books on British country homes.
Reflections
Week in review
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December 04, 2020
On authenticity in architecture, Edgar Degas & listening to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
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December 01, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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December 01, 2020
On Anni & Josef Albers, Ronnie Landfield, marble architecture & more from the world of culture.
Wang Jie, a woman to know
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November 28, 2020
On a Chinese-American composer.
The end of world music
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November 27, 2020
On whether global is better.
Popular
This Week
1 The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
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The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
2 The revenge of art by Mark Steyn
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The revenge of art by Mark Steyn
3 The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
4 Home & away by William Logan
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Home & away by William Logan
5 Like a rock by James Panero
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Like a rock by James Panero
6 Unmaking the Met by James Panero
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Unmaking the Met by James Panero
7 Acheiropoieta by Marco Grassi
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Acheiropoieta by Marco Grassi
8 Political passions by Anthony Daniels
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Political passions by Anthony Daniels
9 Cartes de visite by William Logan
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Cartes de visite by William Logan
10 Inventing the authority of a modern self by Daniel J. Mahoney
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Inventing the authority of a modern self by Daniel J. Mahoney
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