The long, unhappy life of Saul Bellow
by Joseph Epstein
On the novelist’s flaws, foibles & fallings-out.
Features
The bard of blank
by Michael J. Lewis
On the art & architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Bronzino at Cosimo’s court
by Marco Grassi
On the artist’s painting, poetry & work for the Medici.
March of the mummies
by E. A. Carmean, Jr.
On the new vision of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
The ultimate source
by Karen Wilkin
On Titian’s legacy.
My Jerry Saltz problem
by James Panero
On art criticism in the age of the internet.
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Theater
Human action, not human design
by Kevin D. Williamson
The York Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth and Richard II, The Actors’ Company Theater’s The Memorandum & Pieces at 59E59.
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Art
Henry Moore revisited
by Eric Gibson
On “Henry Moore,” originally on view at Tate Britain currently on view at Art Gallery of Ontario, in reduced form and retitled as “The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s.”
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736–1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism” at The Neue Gallerie, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Paul Cézanne: The Card Players” at The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Exhibition note
by Jeffrey Greggs
On “Arcimboldo, 1527–1593: Nature & Fantasy” at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Valery Gergiev, the American Composers Orchestra in Zankel Hall, A Quiet Place at the City Opera, Don Pasquale at the Met & the Tallis Scholars at Alice Tully Hall.
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The media
Gag rulers
by James Bowman
On silencing the opposition.
Verse chronicle
Weird science
by William Logan
On I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston; Walking Papers: Poems 1999-2009, by Thomas Lynch; The Sun-Fish, by Eliéan Nà Chuilleanáin; Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn; Maggot by Paul Muldoon; and Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Shcnackenberg.
Books
Everyone’s nice guy
by Conrad Black
Hints, fragments & scintillations
by Eric Ormsby
on Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1820-1842 (Library of America) & Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841-1877 (Library of America)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Lawrence Rosenwald
Notes & Comments
The NEH vs. America
by The Editors
PC propaganda at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The higher education bubble
by The Editors
On inflation at the academy.