The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

April 1996 Volume 14, Number 8  

Notes & Comments

The Barnes debacle continues on its destructive course

Mr. Holland capitulates


Features

Whose Enlightenment is it?
by Roger Kimball

The dominion of Robertson Davies
by Brooke Allen

Monsieur Pellerin's collection: a footnote to 'Cézanne'
by Karen Wilkin

Scenes of a Russian winter
by William Jay Smith


Poems

Albert's osprey
by Ronald Wallace

Things
by Robert Phillips

The naked truth
by Charles Edward Eaton


Theater

Pastiche & parody
by Mark Steyn


Art

Pus & politics: Kienholz at the Whitney
by Mario Naves

Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian Englandat the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured at the Brooklyn Museum


Music

A foursquare waltz: 'Der Rosenkavalier' at City Opera
by John Simon


The Media

For the lady from Dubuque
by James Bowman


Books

An infinitely worldly clubman
by John Gross

O harp & altar
by Francis Morrone

Required reading?
by Daniel Silver

Diluting Edwards
by Marc M. Arkin

Democracy vs. the news
by Philip Terzian


Notebook

The canonization of W. E. B. Du Bois
by Daniel Flynn