Classic Carne-Ross
by John Talbot
On the “finest critic of Classical literature in English translation since Matthew Arnold.”
On the “finest critic of Classical literature in English translation since Matthew Arnold.”
On the ex-PM’s new memoir.
On the irresponsibility of all involved in the “Hide/Seek” controversy.
On the blend of Classical & modernist influences on the painter’s art.
On The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Slim by Jonathan Coe, Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell & The Pale King by David Foster Wallace.
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On The Book of Mormon & Bengal Tiger
On “Gauguin: Maker of Myth” at the National Gallery, Washington, DC.
On “Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto & Veronese” at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York.
On “Glenn Ligon: America” at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
On “The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
On “In the Use of Others for the Change: A Program of New Ballets by Julia K. Gleich” at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; “Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1958–1968” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; and “Structured Color” at D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York.
On Michael Tilson Thomas with the New York Philharmonic; Queen of Spades, Le Comte Ory & Tosca at the Met; Nikolaj Znaider & the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall; Dorothea Röschmann & David Daniels at Carnegie Hall; & Ignatz Solzhenitsyn at Le Poisson Rouge.
Reconsidering The Alcestiad.
Notes & Comments
Disinterestedness, Judis style
by The Editors
On partisan non-partisanship.
Defacement art
by The Editors
On the sad spectacle of graffiti in the museum.