December 2007
Lapham’s latest folly
On the inaugural issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
On the inaugural issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
On English versus Arabic translation.
On “diversity awareness” at the University of Delaware.
A note on our annual Art issue.
On the ungainly fusion of architecture and celebrity.
On some of the great collectors of the twentieth century.
On the drawings of Georges Seurat at the Museum of Modern Art.
On the relationship between sculptors Henry Moore & Alberto Giacometti.
On J. M. W. Turner at the National Gallery of Art.
On Tom Wolfe & the derrière garde.
On the false profundity of Kahlil Gibran.
On the Wooster Group’s Hamlet, the Manhattan Theater Club’s The Receptionist, and Things We Want at the New Group.
On Calder/Melotti: Lyrical Constructions at Barbara Mathes Gallery; Drawing in Space at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; Joel Shapiro: New Sculpture at PaceWildenstein; Mel Kendrick: Red Blocks at David Nolan Gallery; Willem de Kooning, Drawings: 1920s-1970s at Allan Stone Gallery & Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Celebration at Knoedler & Company.
On “Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now” at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
On “Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love“ at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
On “The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece“ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky festival, the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the pianist Ivan Moravec at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus at Lincoln Center, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
On the on-going celebrification of politics.
On The Biplane Houses by Les Murray, Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky, Expectation Days by Sandra McPherson, Littlefoot by Charles Wright, Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie, and Time and Materials by Robert Hass.
On John Steinbeck’s place in the American curriculum.
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