The Barnes Foundation, RIP
On the recent decision to move most of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection to Philadelphia.
Rise of the indoctrinologists
On the growing trend of political correctness in the American medical establishment.
Gallimaufry & more:
by Roger Kimball
On the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H. C. G Mathew & Brian Harrison.
Butler's unhappy youth
by Anthony Daniels
On Samuel Butler’s autobiographical novel The Way of all Flesh.
Jane Austen, anti-Jacobin
by Judy Stove
On some persistent misinterpretations of Jane Austen.
Morisot & Manet
by Jeffrey Meyers
On the intimate and influential relationship between Berthe Morisot & Edouard Manet.
Reconsiderations: Conrad's Latin America
by Mark Falcoff
On Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.
Photography's painter
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Figure and the Forest: Nineteenth-Century French Photographs and Drawings” at Kate Ganz Gallery, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann” at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; “Ralph Eugene Meatyard” at the International Center of Photography & “James Gillray” at the New York Public Library.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On City Opera’s broadway-style production of Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein; the complete string quartets of Bartok performed by the Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall; the New York Philharmonic with guest conductors: James Conlon, David Robertson, and Sakari Oramo; & Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera.
Opera note
by Patrick J. Smith
On Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Honor enduring
by James Bowman
On the replacement of “the ancient culture of honor” with “the media’s culture of celebrity.”
Tom Wolfe's school days
by Brooke Allen
A review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe.
Dizzy's dominion
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Disraeli: A Personal History, by Christopher Hibbert.
Rara avis
by Michael J. Lewis
A review of John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes.
Starting from zero
by Francis Morrone
A review of Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture and the Rebuilding of Ground Zero, by Paul Goldberger.
Shorter notices
by James Panero
James Panero on My Life, by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Shorter notices
by Stefan Beck
Stefan Beck on Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France, by John J. Miller & Mark Molesky.
The last great Fair
by Jeffrey Hart
On the 1939 New York World’s Fair.