June 2017
Have we had enough?
On reactions to the recent terror attack in Britain.
On reactions to the recent terror attack in Britain.
On the shambolic standards of academic publishing.
Acknowledging the support of our circle of friends
On the struggle to keep government in the hands of a free people.
On museums as havens for culture.
On the cult of the Kibbo Kift.
On seventy years of Directed Studies at Yale.
On the Ottoman legacy in Albania.
On the Ottoman legacy in Albania.
On the state of British politics as experienced through canvassing.
On “Clouds in a Bag” at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center & “Inventing Utamaro” at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera House.
On Hello, Dolly! at the Shubert Theatre, A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the John Golden Theatre & War Paint at the Nederlander Theatre.
On “Boticelli and the Search for the Divine” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On “Independent Visions: Helene Schjerfbeck and Her Contemporaries” at Scandinavia House, New York.
On “Matisse and American Art” at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey & “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On the 2017 Met Gala, “Frieze New York” & “tefaf New York Spring.”
On a new piano concerto by Timo Andres, a performance of the Bach Cello Suites by Alisa Weilerstein, the Metropolitan Opera’s fiftieth-anniversary gala & Der Rosenkavalier performed by the Metropolitan Opera.
On the media’s self-serving presuppositions of scandal.
On Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler & Fast by Jorie Graham.
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