The Critic’s Notebook
On accidental gods, a new show at The Painting Center, the Brandenburg Concertos & more.
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Western civilization at the crossroads: IV
Unprecedented
On the novelty of our cultural predicament.
Art: a special section
Between art & revolution
On Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments Français.
Art: a special section
All turned about
On the Turner prize and a pair of exhibitions in London.
Art: a special section
The collector
On Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza and the family collection.
Art: a special section
Face-to-face with Matisse’s “Backs”
On the French artist’s bronze reliefs of a female nude.
Art: a special section
For Queen & country
On “Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace” at the Queen’s Gallery, London.
Art: a special section
Double Jasper
On “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Art: a special section
Anglicizing the avant-garde
On “Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Art: a special section
Of bodies chang’d
On “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Art: a special section
Czech, please
On Czech Cubist architecture.
The Critic’s Notebook
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December 07, 2021
On accidental gods, a new show at The Painting Center, the Brandenburg Concertos & more.
Joan Tower scores
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December 06, 2021
On a concert of the New York Philharmonic.
Marvelous majolica
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December 06, 2021
On “Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915” at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.
Week in review
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December 03, 2021
On Nôtre Dame de Paris, Donatello & Yuri Felsen.
Crowd-pleasers, pleasing
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December 03, 2021
A gala concert by the New York Philharmonic.
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