The new “Horror Victorianorum”
by Michael J. Lewis
On the irrational hatred of the Victorian era.
Features
Picasso & the third dimension
by Eric Gibson
On “Picasso Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art.
Preserving the city of tomorrow
by Steven W. Semes
The best way to improve our cities may be to keep them the same.
An artful friendship
by Marco Grassi
On a new collection of letters between Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark.
Nothing like the real thing
by Daniel Grant
What exactly is lost when replicas replace the originals?
Auerbach’s defeat of death
by Dominic Green
On “Frank Auerbach” at Tate Britain.
Stella at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
“Frank Stella: A Retrospective” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The vengeance of the Vandals
by James Panero
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.
Poems
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Theater
Navigating choppy seas
by Kyle Smith
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.
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Art
Hiram Powers’s “Greek Slave”
by Bruce Cole
On “Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
“Ai Weiwei” at The Royal Academy of Arts.
Exhibition note
by Benjamin Riley
“Orientalism: Taking and Making” at The New Orleans Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by William C. Agee
“Alfred Maurer: Art on the Edge” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Winterreise at Alice Tully Hall, the American Composers Orchestra and Lang Lang at Carnegie Hall & more.
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The media
A topos of chaos
by James Bowman
What happens to our government when the media relies on political chaos?
Verse chronicle
Under the skin
by William Logan
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
Notes & Comments
ISIS & us
by The Editors
On the importance of calling things by their real names in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
More mush from the wimp
by The Editors
On the president of Yale’s response to recent protests at the college.
The New Criterion on art
by The Editors
On our special art issue.