Homage at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Features
American art: the authorized version
by Michael J. Lewis
On American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, by Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts.
Roberto Longhi remembered
by Marco Grassi
On the Italian art critic and scholar.
Bernini & Houdon
by Eric Gibson
On “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” & “Houdon at the Louvre.”
Bacon’s theater of the absurd
by David Yezzi
On Francis Bacon at the Tate Britain, London.
Made in China
by James Panero
On Zhang Huan & contemporary art in China.
Poems
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Verse chronicle
Shock & awe
by William Logan
On Red Bird by Mary Oliver, Ours by Cole Swensen, Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James, Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa, Figure Studies by Claudia Emerson, One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds.
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Theater
More is less
by Brooke Allen
On A Man for All Seasons at the American Airlines Theatre, and To Be or Not to Be at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Romantic Poetry at City Center.
Art
In from the cold
by Christie Davies
On “Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “George Tooker: A Retrospective” at The National Academy, New York.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On “Oceans, Rivers & Skies: Anselm Adams, Robert Adams & Alfred Stieglitz” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Menahem Pressler & Richard Stoltzman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, James Levine & the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly & Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera, and Lang Lang with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall.
The media
The history of an election
by James Bowman
On Senator Obama’s victory.
Books
Ol’ man author
by Mark Steyn
On The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein, edited by Amy Asch.
Battle of Wills
by Joseph Bottum
On What the Gospels Meant & Martial’s Epigrams: A Selection by Garry Wills.
Pitch highly strung
by Paul Dean
On the collected critical writings of Geoffrey Hill.
A man of imagination
by Joseph Tartakovsky
Dem bones
by Alec Solomita
On Descartes’ Bones by Russell Shorto
Notes & Comments
Freedom imperilled
by The Editors
On democratic despotism.
Opera in New York: RIP?
by The Editors
On Gérard Mortier and the City Opera.