The museum as fun house
by Roger Kimball
Reflections on the changing philosophies of the art museum occasioned by a recent trip to the MASS MoCA.
Reflections on the changing philosophies of the art museum occasioned by a recent trip to the MASS MoCA.
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.
Occasioned by PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine, by Sally Satel.
Reflections on Patrick Tierney’s scandalous book Darkness in El Dorado & the assault on sociobiology.
New attitudes in the Girl Guides, oppressive snowmen & dangerous military bands.
On Steven Berkoff’s one-man show Shakespeare’s Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, Old Money, by Wendy Wasserstein & Proof, by David Auburn.
On “Reconfiguring the New York School,” at the Center for Figurative Painting, New York.
Daniel Kunitz on “Luc Tuymans: Mwana Kitoko,” at David Zwirner, New York.
On “Kenneth Noland: Circles,” at Ameringer Howard, New York.
Mario Naves on “The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland,” at the Frick Collection, New York.
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Reflections on performances & recordings of Bach’s choral music by John Eliot Gardiner & Karl Richter.
David Mermelstein on Il Trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
On the media’s pretense of representing the main currents of American society.
A review of Bellow, by James Atlas.
A review of Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey, by Octavio Paz, translated by Jason Wilson.
A review of Satyricon by Petronius, translated by Sarah Ruden.
A review of Quarrel & quandary, by Cynthia Ozick.
David Yezzi on Other Traditions, by John Ashbery.
Max Watman on Demonology, by Rick Moody.
A response to his critics & the furor occasioned by “Crudity beyond belief” (September 2000).
Notes & Comments
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by The Editors