Rehabilitating the Russian avant-garde
by Hilton Kramer
On Russian & Soviet Paintings 1900–30 at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Features
The NEA: looking back, looking ahead
by Samuel Lipman
On the National Endowment for the Arts.
The poetic legacy of William Carlos Williams
by Bruce Bawer
On William Carlos Williams and his poetry.
Discovering Degas
by James Lord
On Degas’s life and paintings.
The canon under siege
by Mark Helprin
On the politicization of literature in the academy.
Poems
Art
William Tucker’s American decade
by Eric Gibson
On Tucker’s sculptures.
All around the town
by Jed Perl
On a gallery round-up.
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Dance
Slaughter on Columbus Avenue: the American Music Festival
by Eva Resnikova
On the American Music Festival in New York.
Books
Looking after virtue
by Roger Kimball
A review of Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre.
Daddy dearest
by Deborah Solomon
Glasnost, ho!
by David Gurevich
A review of Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov.