Excerpt from the introduction to the newly-abridged Russian version of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
On Obama as Weber’s charismatic leader, and the decline in constitutional governance.
On the creative prowess of playwright Horton Foote.
On translation and a trio of recent versions of the Iliad.
On Eileen Gray and her cold aesthetic.
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On Bullet for Adolf, Triassic Parq, and Peter and the Starcatcher.
On “Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On “The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed” at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York.
On “Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
On “Churchill: The Power of Words” at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
On “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series” at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
On Ai Weiwei, Pussy Riot, and the right way to do political art.
On Yeol Eum Sol at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, Feng Yi Tang, and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
On patriotism, dignity, and their role in modern politics.
On the passing of the writer.
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