Unmaking the Met
On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Unmaking the Met
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On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Acheiropoieta
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On art not made with hands.
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand”
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On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
A scheme of terraces
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On the long life of an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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.
Stanford White’s surfaces
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On the New York architect’s attention to detail.
David Hockney at the Morgan
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On “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
An interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas
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A conversation with the founders of Triglyph Books on British country homes.
Reflections
Playing your own
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November 24, 2020
On a recital presenting a new work by Huw Watkins.
The Critic’s Notebook
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November 24, 2020
On William Bailey, the art of English country houses, Plimoth plantation & more from the world of culture.
Week in review
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November 21, 2020
On Evelyn Waugh, eighteenth-century cats & Whistler’s woman in white.
The blob returns?
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November 18, 2020
On swamps, blobs, and the “resistance.”
New waltzes—and an unearthed impromptu
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November 17, 2020
On a concert by Lawrence Power, viola, and Ryan Wigglesworth, piano.
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The meanspirited wunderkind by David Mermelstein
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“Absolute nonsense”—Gogol’s tales by Gary Saul Morson
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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The Founders’ priceless legacy by Myron Magnet
8 One hundred years of “We” by Jacob Howland
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One hundred years of “We” by Jacob Howland
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Taking leave of the socialism of fools by Leonard Kriegel
10 Like a rock by James Panero
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Like a rock by James Panero
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