Week in review

by Robert S. Erickson

on Ai Weiwei, a second Chernobyl & the leftist distaste for Communist art.

Opera in the shadows

by George Loomis

The Ghosts of Versailles enchants at The Glimmerglass Festival

G. C. Lichtenberg: a “spy on humanity”

by Roger Kimball

On the aphorist.

Dark forces

by James Bowman

On duplicity & bad faith among the media.

Gin and morals, please

by Thomas Triedman

On “Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor” at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Diagnosis of a Kulturkampf

by David Gress

On Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.

June 2019

Notes & Comments

Restoring the lost consensus

From Roger Kimball’s acceptance remarks at the Bradley Prize ceremony.

A note of thanks

Thank you for another year of loyal support.

Features

The Left against Zion

by Dominic Green

On the intellectual left and Israel.

Unpleasant Ibsen

by Brooke Allen

A review of Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask, by Ivo de Figueiredo.

The denunciation machine

by J. Christian Adams

On the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Senses of the past

by Paul Dean

A review of The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism, by Stefan Collini.

Poems

The informant

by Anton Yakovlev

Barry’s house & the Burkean sublime

by George Green

Letter from London

The Brexit bust

by Simon Heffer

On Theresa May’s failures of leadership.

Dance

Passionate intensity

by Laura Jacobs

On “Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance with David Hallberg.”

Theater

Brush up your Shakespeare

by Kyle Smith

On Kiss Me, Kate at Studio 54, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre, and King Lear at the Cort Theatre.

Art

Spilling over at the Whitney

by Karen Wilkin

On “Spilling Over: Painting in Color in the 1960s” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Moore & Moore

by Eric Gibson

On “Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads” at the Wallace Collection, London, and “Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing” at the Henry Moore Foundation.

Monsters & manifestos

by Andrew L. Shea

On “Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art and “Joan Miró: Birth of the World” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note

by Carolyn Stewart

On “The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists” at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On “The Self-Portrait, from Schiele to Beckmann” at The Neue Galerie, New York.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On “Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline” at Gagosian, “De Kooning: Five Decades” at Mnuchin Gallery, and “Lucian Freud: Monumental” at Acquavella Galleries.