December 2008
Freedom imperilled
On democratic despotism.
On democratic despotism.
On Gérard Mortier and the City Opera.
On “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, by Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts.
On the Italian art critic and scholar.
On “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” & “Houdon at the Louvre.”
On Francis Bacon at the Tate Britain, London.
On Zhang Huan & contemporary art in China.
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.
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.
On “Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
On “George Tooker: A Retrospective” at The National Academy, New York.
On “Oceans, Rivers & Skies: Anselm Adams, Robert Adams & Alfred Stieglitz” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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.
On Senator Obama’s victory.
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