Talk shows at the Met
by Eric Gibson
On “AT&T Portfolio Tours.”Â
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Features
“Morality Tales” on tour
by Hilton Kramer
On the traveling exhibition Morality Tales: History Painting in 1980s.
Doing new music, doing American music
by Samuel Lipman
On music and music festivals.
The trials of Edgar Allan Poe
by James Tuttleton
On the life and perception of Edgar Allan Poe.
Pollock and company
by Jed Perl
On Deborah Solomon’s Jackson Pollock & the exhibition “Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments” at the Albright-Knox Gallery.
The passing of an elegist
by Bruce Bawer
A tribute to Howard Moss, 1922–87.
Poems
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Dance
Trisha Brown uptown
by Eva Resnikova
On postmodern dance.
Art
The year of John Chamberlain
by William C. Agee
On John Chamberlain’s art.
Books
Rousseau’s “virtue”
by Roger Kimball
Ruskin according to Proust
by Guy Davenport
The critic as storyteller
by William H. Pritchard
No way out
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble.
Who was Paul Morand?
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Fancy Goods and Open All Night by Paul Morand.