A malign legacy
by David Pryce-Jones
The fourth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
Features
The man who created MOMA
by Hilton Kramer
On Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Wrong turns
by Roger Kimball
On Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The realism of Thomas Eakins
by Michael J. Lewis
On Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Sculpture in the void: Giacometti at MoMA
by Karen Wilkin
On Alberto Giacometti at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Developing in reverse: Signac at the Metropolitan
by Kermit Champa
On Signac, 1863–1935 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bruegel the Elder
by E. V. Thaw
On Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The various Alex Katz
by Mario Naves
On Alex Katz: Small Paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Alex Katz: Large Paintings at PaceWildenstein & Alex Katz: The complete Woodcuts and Linocuts at the Peter Blum Gallery.
Poems
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Theater
Plum on Broadway
by Mark Steyn
On Andrew Lloyd Webber & By Jeeves.
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Art
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On 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.
Music
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 Wagners & Bayreuth.
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The media
Came the face of worryism
by James Bowman
On reporting and public hysteria.
Verse chronicle
All over the map
by William Logan
On 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.
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Books
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.
Prosecuting a war
by Robert Messenger
Defensor linguae
by Gerald J. Russello
Notebook
Chelsea: galleries & garages
by Grace Glueck
On Chelsea’s art district.
Notes & Comments
The New Criterion on art
by The Editors
On the issue’s special art section.
Ernst Gombrich, 1909-2001
by The Editors
On the death of the respected art critic.
The silver lining dept.
by The Editors
On Matthew Barney.