Features
Does abstract art have a future?
by Hilton Kramer
The art of collecting
by E. V. Thaw
On acquiring and possessing fine art.
Art history, Oxford style
by Michael J. Lewis
On the iconoclastic Oxford History of Art.
Architecture & ideology
by Roger Kimball
On humanism and modernism in architecture.
Bonnard’s butterflies
by James Panero
On the metamorphosis of Pierre Bonnard.
Adolph Gottlieb
by Karen Wilkin
The writings of Henry Moore
by Eric Gibson
Poems
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Theater
No vital sparks
by Mark Steyn
On A Man of No Importance & Flower Drum Song.
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Dance
Fight club
by Laura Jacobs
On Movin’ Out, by Twyla Tharp.
Art
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On Robert Ryman: New Paintings at PaceWildenstein; Elmer Bischoff: Paintings, at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; Paul Resika: Paintings, at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries & Jeff Wall: New Work at Marian Goodman Gallery.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art, at The Frick Collection.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Anne-Sophie Mutter, Guarneri String Quartet, David Shifrin, Josc van Dam & Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust.
The media
They still don’t get it
by James Bowman
On the best efforts of our most accomplished stylists and cultivators of extravagant metaphors.
Verse chronicle
The real language of men
by William Logan
Reviews of Book of My Nights, by Li-Young Lee; Now the Green Blade Rises, by Elizabeth Spires; Source, by Mark Doty; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, by B. H. Fairchild; The Nerve, by Glyn Maxwell; Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon.
Books
The lessons of Wellington
by Victor Davis Hanson
A review of Wellington: A Military Life, by Gordon Corrigan & Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It, by Andrew Roberts.
What went wrong?
by Mark Bauerlein
Beyond morality
by Paul Dean
A review of Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama.
Honor wagered
by John J. Miller
Flamboyantly humble
by Max Watman
A review of You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers.
Notes & Comments
Tenured adolescents
by The Editors
On “the adversary culture of the intellectuals” & Prof. Peter N. Kirstein.
Meanwhile, at Cornell . . .
by The Editors
On the university’s health service debating whether to sell vibrators in its dispensary.