The New Criterion on art
On this month’s special art section.
Ernst Gombrich, 1909-2001
In homage to the art historian.
The silver lining dept.
On the drop in attendance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
A malign legacy
by David Pryce-Jones
The fourth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
Plum on Broadway
by Mark Steyn
On By Jeeves, by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
A review of “John Koch: Painting a New York Life,” at the New York Historical Society; “Morris Louis,” at the Paul Kasmin Gallery; “Catherine Murphy: Paintings and Drawings 1999-2001,” at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. & “Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres,” at Gagosian Gallery.
Exhibition note
by James Panero
On “Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Chicago Symphony, Evgeny Kissin & Anne-Sophie Mutter at Carnegie Hall, the Met’s new production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller & Sarah Chang with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
"Dallas" auf Deutsch
by Alexander Coleman
On the legacy of Richard Wagner.
Came the face of worryism
by James Bowman
On reporting and public hysteria.
All over the map
by William Logan
Reviews of Nativity Poems, by Joseph Brodsky; Against Love Poetry, by Eavan Boland; The Long Marriage, by Maxine Kumin; Rooms Are Never Finished, by Agha Shahid Ali; Landscape with Chainsaw, by James Lasdun & A Treatise on Poetry, by Czeslaw Milosz.
W.G. Sebald: the past is another country
by Tess Lewis
A consideration of W. G. Sebald upon the publication of Austerlitz.
Proust before Proust
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Marcel Proust: The Complete Short Stories.
Chelsea: galleries & garages
by Grace Glueck
On Chelsea’s transformation into an art district.