The “Primitivism” conundrum
by Hilton Kramer
On “Primitivism in 20th-Century Art” at MOMA.
Features
Guy Davenport: fiction à la Fourier
by Bruce Bawer
On Davenport’s writing.
Zola & Cézanne: the early years
by Frederick Brown
On the youth of Zola and Cézanne.
Van Gogh at the Met
by Jed Perl
On “Van Gogh at Arles”.
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Pops in Portland, “Elektra” in San Francisco
by Samuel Lipman
On opera in Portland.
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Theater
What’s so great about the RSC?
by Mimi Kramer
On the Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance at the Gershwin Theater on Broadway.
Art
Brice Marden’s abstraction
by Eric Gibson
On Marden’s art.
Books
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“Art” for the Eighties?
by Roger Kimball
On art and ideology.