Issues
Volume 28, Number 4 / December 2009
Notes & Comments
December 2009
Institutional memory
Features
December 2009
The Bauhaus restored
On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
December 2009
Devotion, Italian style
On “reading” early Italian painting.
December 2009
Gorky in Philadelphia
On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
December 2009
Bright-eyed British modern
Jacob Epstein with Torso in Metal from Rock Drill, ca.1952. Photo: Epstein Archive, The New Art Gallery Walsall
December 2009
Kandinsky’s hocus-pocus
On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
December 2009
The art market explained
On why the bubble won’t pop for Pop.
Poems
December 2009
First persons
December 2009
Home for the holidays
Theater
December 2009
The boy in the grey flannel suit
On Good Bobby at 59e59, Willem Dafoe in The Idiot Savant, Oleanna & Proof.
Art
December 2009
Eero’s modern fossils
On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York.
December 2009
Exhibition note
On "Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
December 2009
Exhibition note
On “Looking In: Robert Franks’s The Americans” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
December 2009
Exhibition note
On “The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700” at The National Gallery, London.
Music
December 2009
New York chronicle
On Lorin Maazel with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Damnation of Faust at the Met, an evening of new music at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Neemi Järvi at the New York Philharmonic.
The media
December 2009
Denial of the obvious
On the “necessary lies” of the liberal media.
Verse chronicle
December 2009
From “stinko” to Devo
On The Continual Condition, by Charles Bukowski, edited by John Martin; Wheeling Motel, by Franz Wright; Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly; Easy, by Marie Ponsot; Unrest, by Joanna Rawson; and Planisphere, by John Ashbery.
Notebook
December 2009
Loose ends in Liverpool
Reflections from the Walker Art Gallery.
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