October 2007
Dartmouth & the Brezhnev doctrine
On the Dartmouth administration’s plan to reassert control of the board of trustees.
On the Dartmouth administration’s plan to reassert control of the board of trustees.
On the long-awaited execution of the much-maligned proposal at Hamilton College.
On the crank medical theories of George Bernard Shaw.
On the oft-forgotten historian Tibor Szamuely.
On Ludwig Alois Friedrich von Köchel, compiler of the Köchelverzeichnis.
On the Victorian novelist and the moral question of defending the guilty.
On anti-Americanism and a visit to Scandinavia.
On the novelist and screenwriter Daniel Fuchs.
On Opus at 59E59, Xanadu at the Helen Hayes Theater, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare in the Park, and Frost/Nixon at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.
On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.”
On “Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception” at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut.
On “Edward Hopper” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
On “Masterpieces of Art: Five Centuries of Painting and Sculpture” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Michael Goldberg: New Paintings” at Knoedler & Company & “Duncan Hannah: Wanderlust” at James Graham & Sons.
On Haydn’s Armida, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, and Weber’s Der Freischütz.
On humiliating punishments and the media’s obsession with hypocrisy.
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