January 2005
The Barnes Foundation, RIP
On the recent decision to move most of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection to Philadelphia.
On the recent decision to move most of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection to Philadelphia.
On the growing trend of political correctness in the American medical establishment.
On the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H. C. G Mathew & Brian Harrison.
On Samuel Butler’s autobiographical novel The Way of all Flesh.
On some persistent misinterpretations of Jane Austen.
On the intimate and influential relationship between Berthe Morisot & Edouard Manet.
On Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.
On “The Figure and the Forest: Nineteenth-Century French Photographs and Drawings” at Kate Ganz Gallery, New York.
On “Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann” at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; “Ralph Eugene Meatyard” at the International Center of Photography & “James Gillray” at the New York Public Library.
On City Opera’s broadway-style production of Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein; the complete string quartets of Bartok performed by the Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall; the New York Philharmonic with guest conductors: James Conlon, David Robertson, and Sakari Oramo; & Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
On the replacement of “the ancient culture of honor” with “the media’s culture of celebrity.”
On the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
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