The Bauhaus restored
by Michael J. Lewis
On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Features
Devotion, Italian style
by Marco Grassi
On “reading” early Italian painting.
Gorky in Philadelphia
by Karen Wilkin
On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Bright-eyed British modern
by Eric Gibson
Jacob Epstein with Torso in Metal from Rock Drill, ca.1952. Photo: Epstein Archive, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Kandinsky’s hocus-pocus
by Mario Naves
On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The art market explained
by James Panero
Why the bubble won’t pop for Pop.
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The boy in the grey flannel suit
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Good Bobby at 59e59, Willem Dafoe in The Idiot Savant, Oleanna & Proof.
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Eero’s modern fossils
by Mildred F. Schmertz
On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800,” The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On “Looking In: Robert Franks’s The Americans” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700” at The National Gallery, London.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Lorin Maazel with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Damnation of Faust at the Met, an evening of new music at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Neemi Järvi at the New York Philharmonic.
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The media
Denial of the obvious
by James Bowman
On the “necessary lies” of the liberal media.
Verse chronicle
From “stinko” to Devo
by William Logan
On The Continual Condition, by Charles Bukowski, edited by John Martin; Wheeling Motel, by Franz Wright; Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly; Easy, by Marie Ponsot; Unrest, by Joanna Rawson; and Planisphere, by John Ashbery.
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Notebook
Loose ends in Liverpool
by Anthony Daniels
Reflections from the Walker Art Gallery.
Notes & Comments
The art world vs. the world of art
by The Editors
Institutional memory
by The Editors