Newman’s worldwide mind
by Paul Dean
On one of the nineteenth century’s most original thinkers.
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On the doorstep of Valhalla
by Anthony Daniels
Is it true that undisturbed on the dusty shelves of obscure bookshops lie poems of some merit?
“The Nutcracker”: a new awakening
by Laura Jacobs
On BAM’s exciting new production.
The bolter, or the Chatwin case
by Robert Messenger
On Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare.
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On the vision of Boris Pasternak.
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by Kevin D. Williamson
On Ethan’s People, Starry Messenger & John Gabriel Borkman.
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John Marin in Chicago
by Karen Wilkin
On “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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On “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008” at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
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On “On Becoming An Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960” at the Noguchi Museum, New York.
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On “The Alice Methfessel Collection of Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop” at James S. Jaffe Rare Books, New York.
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On the VIP Art Fair, the Art Project powered by Google & “Angel Otero: Memento” at Lehmann Maupin, New York.
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Too stooped to conquer
by James Bowman
On the media new spin of the Reagan years.
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Man, elephant: it’s big!
by The Editors
Which group is really underrepresented in The Society for Personality?
NEA-ification of the NEH
by The Editors
On the continuing politicization of the NEH.