December 2005
At last . . .
On a recent blow against a discriminatory practice.
On a recent blow against a discriminatory practice.
Just what is a “dispositions exam”?
On our special December art section.
On some recent changes at The New Criterion.
Reflections on Hans Sedlmayr’s remarkable—and largely forgotten—work.
On the failure to memorialize the Twin Towers.
On discussing art criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago and encountering the critic Dave Hickey.
On an unfortunate art world practice.
Fra Angelico comes to the Met.
On Vincent van Gogh’s drawings at the Met.
On Egon Schiele at Neue Galerie.
How did Zola and Proust depict Monet?
What makes a “real” Rodin?
A conversation with Rackstraw Downes.
A new poem.
Mark Steyn on Jonathan Leaf’s “The Caterers.”
On Hans Memling’s portraits at the Frick.
On “Right under the Sun: Landscape in Provence, from Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920),” which opened at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on September 22, 2005 and remains on view through January 8, 2006.
On the latest in the New York music scene.
What’s wrong with a little obfuscation?
William Logan on current poetry.
Theodore Dalrymple on the turmoil in France.
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