December 2022
Decline . . .
On the rot in American institutions.
Issues
Volume 41, Number 4 / December 2022
Notes & Comments
December 2022
. . . & fall
On the Twitterati and art vandals.
Features
Art: a special section
December 2022
Falling off: memories of Clem
On the famous modernist critic.
Art: a special section
December 2022
A library by the book
On the politicization of the American library.
Art: a special section
December 2022
Among the roses
On “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” at the Met.
Art: a special section
December 2022
Collecting misery
A review of On est bien arrivés by Renaud Epstein.
Art: a special section
December 2022
A sculptor in full
On David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor by Michael Brenson.
Art: a special section
December 2022
The Spanish Sargent
On “Sargent and Spain” at the National Gallery of Art.
Art: a special section
December 2022
A very sharp & mechanical man
On “Mr. Pergolesi's Curious Things: Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain” at the Cooper Hewitt.
Poems
December 2022
Offering
December 2022
Deposition
December 2022
The pillow
Reflections
December 2022
Rex publicus
On the mystique of the British monarchy.
Reconsiderations
December 2022
The conflicted anti-colonialist
On the career of Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Dance
December 2022
Pirouette power
On the history of ballet and politics.
Theater
December 2022
The good, the bad & the ugly
On Leopoldstadt, Topdog/Underdog, and 1776.
Art
December 2022
To the summit, via Philadelphia
On “Matisse in the 1930s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
December 2022
Exhibition note
On “Modigliani Up Close” at the Barnes Foundation.
Music
December 2022
New York chronicle
On Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya at Carnegie Hall, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, La traviata, and the New York Philharmonic at the new David Geffen Hall.
The media
December 2022
Playing the fear card
On the midterms and the media’s treatment of Liz Truss.
Verse chronicle
December 2022
A sentimental education
On Cotton Candy by Ted Kooser, Musical Tables by Billy Collins, Midwood by Jana Prikryl, Songs of the Closing Doors by Patrick Phillips, Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, and Canopy by Linda Gregerson.
Notebook
December 2022
Ruth Slenczynska at ninety-seven
On the pianist’s career and method.
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