The Whitney’s new Graves
by Hilton Kramer
On Michael Graves’s design for a new Whitney Museum.
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Doris Lessing: on the road to “The Good Terrorist”
by Bruce Bawer
On Doris Lessing’s books.
On art history
by S.J. Freedberg
On art history and the subjectivity of the art historians.
Max Beerbohm and the law of levity
by Joseph Epstein
On Max Beerbohm’s art.
Raymond Aron: last of the liberals
by Allan Bloom
On Raymond Aron’s ideas.
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What the Cliburn contest thinks of pianists
by Samuel Lipman
On the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Art
Di Suvero and constructivism
by Eric Gibson
On Mark di Suvero’s sculptures.
Figures in three dimensions
by Jed Perl
On the sculpture of Timothy Woodman & Barbara Goodstein.
Books
The “superfluous man”
by Joseph Frank
A review of Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz.
No forgetting
by James Gardner
A review of All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg.
Bellini’s drawings
by Creighton Gilbert
A review of Jacopo Bellini: The Louvre Album of Drawings edited by Bernhard Degenhart & Annegrit Schmitt.
The war according to Sartre
by Roger Kimball
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The legacy of Punk Rock
by Michael Brandow
On music culture in Detroit and New York.