Future tense, VI: Under the scientific Bo Tree
by Anthony Daniels
On the meaning in material world.
Features
Christopher, for better & for worse
by Peter Collier
On the critic, polemicist & raconteur Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011).
Let’s tickle the ivories
by David Dubal
On the joys of playing the piano.
At the Cafe Mirabell
by Thornton Wilder
A previously unpublished essay by the playwright and novelist.
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Dwight Macdonald reconsidered
by John Simon
On the editor of the Partisan Review.
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Theater
Todd is my slave name
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Seminar, Honeymoon Hotel & Lysistrata Jones.
Art
Two young artists
by Karen Wilkin
On “Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artists” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art & Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Work 5000 B.C.–A.D. 2010” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London & “The Flamboyant Mr. Chinnery: An English Artist in India and China” at Asia House, London.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed” at the Yale Center for British Art.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “MIC:CHECK (occupy)” at Sideshow gallery, Brooklyn; “Gabriele Evertz: Rapture” at Minus Space, Brooklyn; “Lori Ellison” at McKenzie Fine Art, New York & “Halsey Hathaway and Gary Petersen: New Paintings” and “Paintings by Rob de Oude” at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn.
5 “Lee Bontecou: Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing” opened at FreedmanArt, New York, on October 27, 2011 and remains on view through February 11, 2012.
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Music
The media
The left-wing fantasy
by James Bowman
On the myth of the Republican “theocracy.”
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Books
The persecution of Lord Black
by Andrew C. McCarthy
Lawrence’s legacy
by David Pryce-Jones
Cherchez la femme
by Carl Rollyson
Fuller house
by Marc M. Arkin
Gigantic footprints
by Alexandra Mullen
Shorter notice
by James Panero
Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
A review of The Acceptance of Absurdity. Anthony Powell & Robert Vanderbilt Letters 1952-1963, edited by John Saumarez Smith & Jonathan Kooperstein.
Notebook
A cack-handed genius
by Stefan Beck
I.M Ronald Searle, 1920–2011.
Notes & Comments
Romancing radicalism
by The Editors
On The New York Times’s love letter to the Weather Underground member Judy Clark.
Helen Frankenthaler, 1928—2011
by The Editors
On the passing of the painter.