Exhibition note
by James Panero
On Wolfgang Tillmans at Busch-Reisinger.
On Wolfgang Tillmans at Busch-Reisinger.
On Chirac’s CNN appearance.
On the affirmative action debate at the University of Michigan.
On the author’s student days in Paris.
On the completed publication of Huxley’s six-volume collection of essays.
Considering murder in literature and life.
On the recent defense of relativism from the right.
On Neil Labute’s The Mercy Seat.
On “Voyage into Myth: French Paintings from Gauguin to Matisse from the Hermitage Museum” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
On “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” at the Fogg art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Roger Kimball on “Park Avenue Cubists” at Grey Art Gallery, New York.
Jay Nordlinger gives a holiday-season wrap-up of Handel’s Messiah by the New York Philharmonic, a New Year’s Eve all-Gershwin concert at Avery Fisher, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites at the Met, Leon Botstein’s Bruckner at the Bard Graduate Center, and a reevaluation of the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
Revisiting the inquisition of Trent Lott.
A review of Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian, by Gitta Honegger.
A review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets, edited by J. D. McClatchy.
A review of Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, by Janet Browne.
A review of Wilfred Owen , by Dominic Hibberd.
Notes & Comments
Meanwhile, in Britain . . .
by The Editors
On the British Musicians Union proposed ban on Israeli musicians.