December 2003
Reviving the bard
On the NEA’s project: “Shakespeare in American Communities.”
On the NEA’s project: “Shakespeare in American Communities.”
On Gore Vidal’s ranting in The LA Weekly.
On Senator Kennedy’s verbal extremity.
On the first Kluge Prize.
On this month’s expanded section on visual art.
On American modernism in architecture. The fourth of our series “Lengthened shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-first Century.”
In Chicago this fall, the poet Mark Strand interviewed the figurative painter William Bailey about the genesis and direction of his art.
A conservationist discusses his business.
On the trend away from art in art history.
On the reopening of a curious New York institution.
On “Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism.”
On Degas’s sculpture.
On trends for art museums.
On changes in the British political climate.
On Wicked at the Gershwin theater.
On the circle of modernist painters in Munich that came to be known as the Blue Rider.
Eric Gibson on “Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment,” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
On recent piano recitals by Alicia de Larrocha & Zoltán Kocsis.
On Nicholas and Alexandra the first work commissioned exclusively by the Los Angeles Opera.
Should the news desk be handed over to the sports writers?
Reviews of Nine Horses, by Billy Collins; Departure, by Rosanna Warren; The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, by Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson; The Perishing, by Sherod Santos; Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forché; & The Love Bomb, and Other Musical Pieces, by James Fenton.
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