December 2010
The NEH vs. America
PC propaganda at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
PC propaganda at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On inflation at the academy.
On the novelist’s flaws, foibles & fallings-out.
On the art & architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
On the artist’s painting, poetry & work for the Medici.
On the new vision of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
On Titian’s legacy.
On art criticism in the age of the internet.
The York Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth and Richard II, The Actors’ Company Theater’s The Memorandum & Pieces at 59E59.
On “Henry Moore,” originally on view at Tate Britain currently on view at Art Gallery of Ontario, in reduced form and retitled as “The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s.”
On Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736–1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism” at The Neue Gallerie, New York.
On “Paul Cézanne: The Card Players” at The Courtauld Gallery, London.
On “Arcimboldo, 1527–1593: Nature & Fantasy” at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
On Valery Gergiev, the American Composers Orchestra in Zankel Hall, A Quiet Place at the City Opera, Don Pasquale at the Met & the Tallis Scholars at Alice Tully Hall.
On silencing the opposition.
On I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston; Walking Papers: Poems 1999-2009, by Thomas Lynch; The Sun-Fish, by Eliéan Ní Chuilleanáin; Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn; Maggot by Paul Muldoon; and Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Shcnackenberg.
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