Notes & Comments Features On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. by Karen Wilkin On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. by Eric Gibson On “Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill,” at the Royal Academy. by Mario Naves On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Poems Theater The boy in the grey flannel suit On Good Bobby at 59e59, Willem Dafoe in The Idiot Savant, Oleanna & Proof. Art On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York. On "Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. by Nola Tully On "Looking In: Robert Franks's "The Americans" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On "The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700" at The National Gallery, London. Music On Lorin Maazel with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Damnation of Faust at the Met, an evening of new music at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Neemi Järvi at the New York Philharmonic. The Media Verse Chronicle On The Continual Condition, by Charles Bukowski, edited by John Martin; Wheeling Motel, by Franz Wright; Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly; Easy, by Marie Ponsot; Unrest, by Joanna Rawson; and Planisphere, by John Ashbery. Books on Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World by Mariana Cook,Robert Clifford Gunning on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky Notebook If you are a subscriber and you have not received an issue, or if an issue arrived damaged, please call 800-783-4903 or 973-627-5162 within 90 days of issue date for a replacement copy. |