December 2023
Tenured barbarians
On academic anti-Semitism.
Issues
Volume 42, Number 4 / December 2023
Notes & Comments
Features
Art: a special section
December 2023
Absinthe minded
On the preferred potable of Paris’s avant-garde.
Art: a special section
December 2023
The three faces of Lafayette
On Daniel Chester French’s Marquis de Lafayette.
Art: a special section
December 2023
A study in contrasts
On “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Art: a special section
December 2023
Rodin & Michelangelo: a speculation
On the masters’ parallel methods.
Art: a special section
December 2023
Restoration drama
On the newly reconstructed Berliner Stadtschloss façade.
Art: a special section
December 2023
Notes on “Le Serf”
On the missing arms of Matisse’s Le Serf.
Art: a special section
December 2023
Yesterday’s tomorrow
On “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Poems
December 2023
“Get Back”
December 2023
The feast of the hungry
Letter from London
December 2023
National & international
On Modern Buildings in London by Ian Nairn & the exhibitions “Portraits of Dogs” & “Turner and Bonington” at the Wallace Collection, London.
Reconsiderations
December 2023
The Rousseau of the Caucasus
On the much-neglected Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani.
Theater
December 2023
Misplaced energies
On Sabbath’s Theater, Gutenberg! The Musical! & Emergence.
Art
December 2023
From Rome, with art
On “The Hub of the World: Art in Eighteenth-Century Rome” at Nicholas Hall, New York.
December 2023
Picasso by parts
On “Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Picasso in Fontainebleau” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Music
December 2023
New York chronicle
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall & the Park Avenue Armory.
The media
December 2023
Killing with kindness
On the Left’s anti-Semitism problem.
Verse chronicle
December 2023
Modern love, ancient war
On new poetry by Whitney Hanson, Terrance Hayes, Catherine Tufariello, Nicole Sealey & Ishion Hutchinson & Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad.
Notebook
December 2023
Alone in a room
On a day in the artist’s studio.
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