From a special issue printed in the Summer of 1984 regarding the reopening of the MOMA. Issue includes a special essay by Hilton Kramer, photographs by John T. Hill, and a collection of images from a MOMA exhibition.
"It is assuredly a new MOMA that we have now been given-a museum not only greatly enlarged physically but significantly altered in its general outlook and spirit."
On The Democratic Muse by Edward C. Banfield.
On The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm.
On the nature of essays and essayists.
On the structure and the meaning of James Merrill’s poetry.
On the Greek government’s request that the Elgin Marbles be returned to Athens & other matters.
A response to “The MLA centennial follies” by Helen Vendler, with a reply by Hilton Kramer.
On Doris Monteux's life and her representation in the media.
