The indispensable man
by Conrad Black
On Andrew Roberts’s impressive new biography of Winston Churchill.
Features
Museum work & museum problems
by Belinda Rathbone
On Paul Sachs’s “Museum Course” at Harvard.
Sell the picture
by Marco Grassi
On the history of the art market.
Displaying Brancusi
by Eric Gibson
On Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures at The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The family business
by Dominic Green
On “Mantegna and Bellini” at the National Gallery in London.
Dickinson alive in Philadelphia
by Andrew L. Shea
On “Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The ethics of deaccessioning
by Steven Miller
On concerns about museums selling their collections.
Dobson: the most excellent painter
by Karen Wilkin
On “William Dobson: Artist of the Civil War” at Tate Britain.
Poems
Pentecost, Risby
by G. C. Waldrep
The old college try
by James Panero
On the renovation of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art.
Eleventh Reverie of Magellan
by R. Nemo Hill
Overnight
by Richard Tillinghast
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Letters from the World
Dead red in Britain
by Simon Heffer
On Britain’s Labour Party.
Theater
Start the revolution without me
by Kyle Smith
On Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Apologia at the Laura Pels Theatre, and The Lifespan of a Fact at Studio 54.
Art
Surveying the surveys
by Daniel Grant
On the history of the contemporary art survey.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist” at the Barnes Foundation.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Nico Muhly’s Marnie and Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, and, at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the violinist Maxim Vengerov in recital, and the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
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The media
Yet it does fly
by James Bowman
On the midterm elections.
Verse chronicle
Identity cards
by William Logan
On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.
Books
Notebook
Picture power
by Henrik Bering
On finding inspiration in a personal art collection.
Notes & Comments
Offense archaeology
by The Editors
On excavating the old “offenses” of Roger Scruton.
Herbert I. London, 1939—2018
by The Editors
On the late head of the Hudson Institute and founder of the London Center for Policy Research.