December 2015
ISIS & us
On the importance of calling things by their real names in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
On the importance of calling things by their real names in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
On the president of Yale’s response to recent protests at the college.
On our special art issue.
On the irrational hatred of the Victorian era.
On “Picasso Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art.
The best way to improve our cities may be to keep them the same.
On a new collection of letters between Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark.
What exactly is lost when replicas replace the originals?
On “Frank Auerbach” at Tate Britain.
“Frank Stella: A Retrospective” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
ISIS followers, who use vandalism not just a strategy but a central component of their terrorist brand, have shown that they are the Vandals of our era.
On The Humans at the Laura Pels Theatre, Colin Quinn The New York Story at the Cherry Lane Theatre & Dames at Sea at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
On “Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
“Ai Weiwei” at The Royal Academy of Arts.
“Orientalism: Taking and Making” at The New Orleans Museum of Art.
“Alfred Maurer: Art on the Edge” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
On Winterreise at Alice Tully Hall, the American Composers Orchestra and Lang Lang at Carnegie Hall & more.
What happens to our government when the media relies on political chaos?
A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw; The Emperor of Water Clocks by Yusef Komunyakaa; The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer; Notes on the Assemblage, by Juan Felipe Herrera & Impossible Bottle by Claudia Emerson
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