At the Picasso Museum
by Hilton Kramer
On the Musée Picasso in Paris.
Features
The ambiguities of Milan Kundera
by Roger Kimball
On Milan Kundera’s novels and beliefs.
Starring Cindy Sherman: notes on the new art world
by Jed Perl
On Cindy Sherman’s photographs.
“My dear, dear Sister”: the life of Dorothy Wordsworth
by Bruce Bawer
On Dorothy Wordsworth’s life path.
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Casanova at the City Opera
by Samuel Lipman
On Dominick Argento’s Casanova.
Theater
Why Edwin Drood had to die
by Mimi Kramer
On the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Art
Donatello as curator’s choice
by Creighton Gilbert
On “Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello” at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Two sculptors
by Eric Gibson
On Donald Lipski and William Tucker.
Books
Tchaikovsky’s ballets
by Eva Resnikova
A review of Tchaikovsky’s Ballets by Roland John Wiley.
Seeing Lawrence whole
by Robert Langbaum
A review of Flame into Being: The Life & Work of D. H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess.
Two reputations
by Victor M. Cassidy
A review of Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound & Wyndham Lewis edited by Timothy Materer.
Lyric to narrative
by Robert Richman
A review of Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 by Andrew Motion.