December 2020
The New Criterion on art
On The New Criterion’s December Art issue.
Issues
Volume 39, Number 4 / December 2020
Notes & Comments
Features
Art: a special section
December 2020
Unmaking the Met
On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art: a special section
December 2020
Acheiropoieta
On art not made with hands.
Art: a special section
December 2020
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand”
On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
Art: a special section
December 2020
A scheme of terraces
On the long life of an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Art: a special section
December 2020
Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush
On artistic solitude & on A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.
Art: a special section
December 2020
Stanford White’s surfaces
On the New York architect’s attention to detail.
Art: a special section
December 2020
David Hockney at the Morgan
On “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Art: a special section
December 2020
An interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas
A conversation with the founders of Triglyph Books on British country homes.
Poems
December 2020
Virginia round-leaf birch
December 2020
Set free
Reflections
December 2020
Political passions
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
Reconsiderations
December 2020
More lasting than bronze
On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
Art
December 2020
Objection sustained
On “Crime and Punishment” at the New Museum, New York.
Music
December 2020
Livestream chronicle
A review of recent livestreams from Wigmore Hall, London.
The media
December 2020
United only in hate
On the media’s response to claims of election fraud.
Verse chronicle
December 2020
Cartes de visite
A review of Runaway, by Jorie Graham, Railsplitter, by Maurice Manning, If Men, Then, by Eliza Griswold, Blizzard, by Henri Cole, and Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley.
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