Studying the arts and humanities: what can be done?
by Hilton Kramer
On the problem of humanities.
Features
Berenson, connoisseurship, and the history of art
by S.J. Freedberg
On Bernard Berenson and art history.
Pierre Monteux and the criterion of success
by Samuel Lipman
On Pierre Monteux’s career.
Conrad Aiken’s pilgrimage
by Bruce Bawer
On Conrad Aiken and his poetry.
Master Courbet
by Jed Perl
On Courbet Reconsidered at the Brooklyn Museum.
Poems
Art
The “Mephistopheles” of sculpture: Medardo Rosso today
by Eric Gibson
On Medardo Rosso’s sculptures.
Painting like the Old Masters: Odd Nerdrum
by Kenworth W. Moffett
On Odd Nerdrum’s paintings.
Most popular
Dance
The inside dope on Ballet Theatre
by Eva Resnikova
On the book Private View by John Fraser.
Books
The doleful legacy of Carlton Beals
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Carlton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America by John A. Britton.
Between decorum and abandon
by Robert Richman
A review of Morning Run by Jonathan Galassi & Poems: New & Selected by Frederick Morgan.
Notebook
Between art and a hard place
by Bradley Bloch
On Art in the 80s & 90s, a lecture by Whitney curator Lisa Phillips, at the Learning Annex.