On the “Spiritual in Art” in Los Angeles
by Hilton Kramer
On the exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Features
New tales for old wives
by Gloria G. Fromm
On women in art.
What happened to British art?
by Kermit Champa
On “British Art in the Twentieth Century” at the Royal Academy of Art.
Books
John Fowles and his big ideas
by Bruce Bawer
On the English writer.
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Sad thoughts on Walter Busterkeys, a.k.a. Liberace
by Samuel Lipman
On the pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace.
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Architecture
Isozaki’s MOCA
by Christopher Flacke
On Arata Isozaki’s buildings.
Theater
“Crime and Punishment” in Washington
by Fernanda Eberstadt
On the Soviet émigré director Yuri Lyubimov’s production of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
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Dance
Innocents from abroad
by Eva Resnikova
On Maguy Marin’s Cinderella.
Art
The pictures and passions of Leland Bell
by Jed Perl
On the Leland Bell show.
The hardened reviewer
by Donald Hall
A review of Marianne Moore’s Complete Prose.
Casting away
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Foe by J. M. Coetzee.
American writers and the British muse
by James Tuttleton
A review of Atlantic Double-Cross by Robert Weisbuch.
Mountain mystifications
by Roger Kimball
A review of Hermann Bloch’s The Spell.
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Notebook
Henry-Russell Hitchcock 1903-1987
by William H. Jordy
On Hitchcock’s career as a historian and critic of modern architecture.