The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

March 1994 Volume 12, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

A prescription for fatuousness

Beverly Sills at Lincoln Center

The fringe as mainstream


Features

At the Bauhaus: the fate of art in “the Cathedral of Socialism”
by Hilton Kramer

The fallen world of Geoffrey Hill
by William Logan
On Mr. Hill's New & Collected Poems.

Degas & his landscapes
by Karen Wilkin
On Degas Landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Seductive monsters: Laclos's “Liaisons dangereuses”
by Renee Winegarten


Poems

The boy in the well
by Daniel Mark Epstein

The twins
by Daniel Mark Epstein

Observer
by Robert Pack


Art

Unforgotten years
by Jed Perl
On a variety of historical gallery shows in New York City.

Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings at Knoedler & Co.

Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “The Golden Age of Danish Painting” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


Theater

On belly & floor in Pinterland
by Donald Lyons
On the Broadway revival of Pinter's No Man's Land.


The Media

Winter games
by James Bowman
On media coverage of the Tonya Harding case & other matters.


Books

A moralist restored
by Vasily Rudich
A review of Ronald Mellor's Tacitus.

If the suit fits…
by Brooke Allen
A review of A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis.

The boys & their baby
by Christopher Carduff
A review of We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Thistles & thorns
by Michael Glover
A review of Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid.

Big little lady
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick.


Notebook

Richard Wilbur: a tribute
by John Simon