The rise of the “starchitect”
by Michael J. Lewis
On the ungainly fusion of architecture and celebrity.
Features
The great collectors
by Marco Grassi
On some of the great collectors of the twentieth century.
Seurat in black & white
by Karen Wilkin
On the drawings of Georges Seurat at the Museum of Modern Art.
Moore & Giacometti
by Eric Gibson
On the relationship between sculptors Henry Moore & Alberto Giacometti.
Seeing Turner whole
by David Yezzi
On J. M. W. Turner at the National Gallery of Art.
Radical un-chic
by James Panero
On Tom Wolfe & the derrière garde.
Poems
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Reconsiderations
The false prophet
by Anthony Daniels
On the false profundity of Kahlil Gibran.
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Theater
Group aesthetic
by Brooke Allen
On the Wooster Group’s Hamlet, the Manhattan Theater Club’s The Receptionist, and Things We Want at the New Group.
Art
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On Calder/Melotti: Lyrical Constructions at Barbara Mathes Gallery; Drawing in Space at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; Joel Shapiro: New Sculpture at PaceWildenstein; Mel Kendrick: Red Blocks at David Nolan Gallery; Willem de Kooning, Drawings: 1920s-1970s at Allan Stone Gallery & Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Celebration at Knoedler & Company.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now” at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Exhibition note
by Joe Leduc
On “Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love“ at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Exhibition note
by Maureen Mullarkey
On “The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece“ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky festival, the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the pianist Ivan Moravec at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus at Lincoln Center, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
The media
Clooney tunes
by James Bowman
On the on-going celebrification of politics.
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Verse chronicle
The world is too much with us
by William Logan
On The Biplane Houses by Les Murray, Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky, Expectation Days by Sandra McPherson, Littlefoot by Charles Wright, Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie, and Time and Materials by Robert Hass.
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Books
Castle adamant
by Denis Donoghue
On Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s by Edmund Wilson.
Mushmouth nation
by Stefan Beck
On The Death of the Grown-up by Diana West.
Little songs
by David Barber
On American Sonnets: An Anthology, edited by David Bromwich.
Pulled punches
by Tess Lewis
On Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee.
Primal obligations
by Gerald J. Russello
On David R. Slavitt’s translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles.
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Notebook
Of mice & melodrama
by Jonathan Leaf
On John Steinbeck’s place in the American curriculum.
Notes & Comments
Lapham’s latest folly
by The Editors
On the inaugural issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
Multiculturalism, a reality check
by The Editors
On English versus Arabic translation.
The New Criterion on art
by The Editors
A note on our annual Art issue.
Academic consciousness raising
by The Editors
On “diversity awareness” at the University of Delaware.