The Popes’ art, out on loan
by Creighton Gilbert
On “The Vatican Collections” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Features
Art
The Morton Schamberg retrospective
by Hilton Kramer
On a traveling exhibition for the American Modernist.
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Theater
Hamlet undone
by Mimi Kramer
On the interpretations of Hamlet.
Music
Opera in Germany
by Patrick J. Smith
On music in Germany.
Fiction chronicle
The end of the world
by Joshua Gilder
A review of Ararat, by D. M. Thomas, The End of the World News, by Anthony Burgess, and Pilgermann, by Russell Hoban.
Notebook
Room on the podium?
by Samuel Lipman
On Zubin Mehta’s performance in New York.