Notebook April 2024
Criminality & celebrity
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On the depredations of Louis Althusser.
On the depredations of Louis Althusser.
On a newly discovered Cézanne, manuscript drafts & Irving Babbitt.
On Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Paris Opéra.
On “Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty” at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
On “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
On “At the Court of Prince Genji: 1000 Years of Japanese Imagination” at the Musée Guimet, Paris.
On European panic, the Bauhaus & Warhol.
On stained glass & the Iron Curtain.
On “Mark Rothko” at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.
On “The Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral: From Its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc” at the Louvre.