Stalinism then and now: an exchange
by Hilton Kramer
On Stalin’s regime.
Features
Cultural policy: whither America, whither government?
by Samuel Lipman
On the cultural policy and governmental budgetary.
Learning from Leavis
by Mark Stevens
On Leavis’s understanding of traditions.
Max Beckmann: the later work
by Dan Hofstadter
On “Max Beckmann—Retrospective,” at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Henry James: assailed by the perceptions
by Joseph Epstein
On James in his letters.
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Ansel Adams: the politics of natural space
by Andy Grundberg
On Ansel Adams’s landscape photography.
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Music
Stravinsky’s “Rake,” City Opera’s progress
by Samuel Lipman
On the performance at the City Opera.
Art
The art of George McNeil
by Eric Gibson
On McNeil’s art.
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Theater
Reactionary Papp
by Mimi Kramer
On the Joseph Papp Henry V.
