December 2006
Milton Friedman, 1912-2006
On the passing of the great economist.
On the passing of the great economist.
An introduction to the 2006 art issue.
An appreciation of the influential art critic and teacher.
On the Marxist art historian and his new book, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing.
The death of abstract art has been greatly exaggerated.
On the legal tribulations of treasure.
An exploration of the symbolist origins of modern art.
David Yezzi interviews the painter Graham Nickson, director of the New York Studio School.
From “De rerum natura,” book four
On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
Brooke Allen on Grey Gardens, Butley, and The Clean House
On the Mesopotamian cylinder seals from the permanent collection, on view at the Morgan Library.
On The Wonderful Art of Oz at the Eric Carle Museum.
On Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings & Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art.
Jay Nordlinger on music.
On Helene Grimaud at Carnegie Hall.
James Bowman explores the faux objectivity of the news media around election time.
On Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard, Mark Strand’s Man and Camel, A. R. Ammons’s Ommateum, with Doxology, Louise Glück’s Firstborn, and Franz Wright’s God’s Silence.
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