December 2020
The New Criterion on art
On The New Criterion’s December Art issue.
On The New Criterion’s December Art issue.
On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On art not made with hands.
On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
On the long life of an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
On artistic solitude & on A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.
On the New York architect’s attention to detail.
On “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
A conversation with the founders of Triglyph Books on British country homes.
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
On “Crime and Punishment” at the New Museum, New York.
A review of recent livestreams from Wigmore Hall, London.
On the media’s response to claims of election fraud.
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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