The self-interested society
by Kenneth Minogue
Societies are all imperfect, but self-interested societies fare far better than any of their counterparts.
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Miracle at the Met
by Marco Grassi
The European paintings galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art have a rich history and are finally reaching their full potential thanks to new renovations.
Against aesthetics
by William Logan
On criticism & rejecting aesthetic statements.
The plot to save America
by Andrew C. McCarthy
There’s a little-known loophole in the Constitution that will allow states to get America back on course.
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Poems
Letters from the World
The mighty men of Whitby
by Anthony Daniels
A small town in North Yorkshire has turned out a surprising number of artists.
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Theater
Asphalt kingdom
by Kevin D. Williamson
Reviews of Cymbeline, Macbeth, and The Assembled Parties.
Art
From the Venice Biennale
by Karen Wilkin
On the fifty-fifth Biennale di Venezia, “Manet: Return to Venice” presented by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia at the Doge’s Palace and “Robert Motherwell: Early Collages” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life” at Tate Britain, London.
Exhibition note
by Molly McQuade
On “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci” at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
The Artist is present in the Bronx
by James Panero
On Gramsci Monument: A Work in Public Space by Thomas Hirschhorn at Forest Houses, the Bronx, New York.
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Music
In the record bins
by Jay Nordlinger
On new recordings from Jonas Kaufmann, Claudio Abbado, Anna Netrebko, Gustavo Dudamel, and many more.
The media
Sanity: an obituary
by James Bowman
Connecting race, obituaries, and the sale of The Washington Post.
Books
Notebook
Edmund Sears Morgan, 1916—2013
by Marc M. Arkin
Remembering the great historian, Edmund Sears Morgan.
Notes & Comments
Some homage and farewells
by The Editors
Remembering Kenneth Minogue, Peter Flanigan, and Donald Kahn.