On acquiring and possessing fine art.
On the iconoclastic Oxford History of Art.
On humanism and modernism in architecture.
On the metamorphosis of Pierre Bonnard.
On A Man of No Importance & Flower Drum Song.
On Movin’ Out, by Twyla Tharp.
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.
On Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art, at The Frick Collection.
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On Anne-Sophie Mutter, Guarneri String Quartet, David Shifrin, Josc van Dam & Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust.
On the best efforts of our most accomplished stylists and cultivators of extravagant metaphors.
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.
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.
A review of Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama.
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.