Issues
Volume 19, Number 6 / February 2001
Notes & Comments
Features
February 2001
The museum as fun house
Reflections on the changing philosophies of the art museum occasioned by a recent trip to the MASS MoCA.
February 2001
The last Elizabethan: Hart Crane at 100
Occasioned by the centennial of Crane’s birth , the publication of The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane, by Paul Mariani & the re-publication of The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon.
February 2001
Morality for solipsists
Occasioned by PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine, by Sally Satel.
February 2001
Exorcising sociobiology
Reflections on Patrick Tierney’s scandalous book Darkness in El Dorado & the assault on sociobiology.
Poems
February 2001
From the guest room window
February 2001
The refuge
February 2001
1932
February 2001
Three songs for Franz Schubert
London journal
February 2001
In the land of fulfillment
New attitudes in the Girl Guides, oppressive snowmen & dangerous military bands.
Theater
February 2001
Covering the classics
On Steven Berkoff’s one-man show Shakespeare’s Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, Old Money, by Wendy Wasserstein & Proof, by David Auburn.
Art
February 2001
Making the case for figuration
On “Reconfiguring the New York School,” at the Center for Figurative Painting, New York.
February 2001
Exhibition note
Daniel Kunitz on “Luc Tuymans: Mwana Kitoko,” at David Zwirner, New York.
February 2001
Exhibition note
On “Kenneth Noland: Circles,” at Ameringer Howard, New York.
February 2001
Exhibition note
Mario Naves on “The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland,” at the Frick Collection, New York.
Music
February 2001
Hearing Bach
Reflections on performances & recordings of Bach’s choral music by John Eliot Gardiner & Karl Richter.
February 2001
Opera note
David Mermelstein on Il Trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
The media
February 2001
Outside the mainstream
On the media’s pretense of representing the main currents of American society.
Notebook
February 2001
Walsall redux
A response to his critics & the furor occasioned by “Crudity beyond belief” (September 2000).
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