Museum fatigue
On professional fatigue in the top ranks of museums
A good scam?
On the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels written in English since 1900
The betrayal of liberalism
by Hilton Kramer
The first in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism
Delacroix reconsidered
by Roger Kimball
On Delacroix: The Late Work, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Magnifying old mistakes: the situation in France
by David Pryce-Jones
On Commentaire: revue trimestrielle & French particularity
The entertainment state
by Mark Steyn
On the historical distortions of popular culture
Page
by Joe Bolton
Soon
by Joe Bolton
A Degas doubleheader
by Karen Wilkin
Reviews of Degas and the Little Dancer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. & Degas at the Races at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
On a modest scale
by Mario Naves
Reviews of Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Norman Lewis (1909-1979) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & Aleksandr Rodchenko at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On Alberto Giacometti at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On George Segal, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, and Drawings, at the Jewish Museum, New York
Operation retract
by James Bowman
On bias, honesty & the Operation Tailwind retraction
The wily Mr. Shawn
by Brooke Allen
Reviews of Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta & Here But Not Here: A Love Story by Lillian Ross
The philosophy of We
by Jenny Teichman
Review of Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 by Richard Rorty
A humble Cyrano
by Ben Downing
Review of For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems by Eric Ormsby
Selling Milton
by Paul Dean
Review of The Riverside Milton, edited by Roy Flannagan
The curse of the Irish
by Richard Tillinghast
Review of No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin
Reporting Nuremberg
by Carl Rollyson
On the war crimes trial reporting of Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner & Rebecca West