December 2018
Offense archaeology
On excavating the old “offenses” of Roger Scruton.
On excavating the old “offenses” of Roger Scruton.
On the late head of the Hudson Institute and founder of the London Center for Policy Research.
On Andrew Roberts’s impressive new biography of Winston Churchill.
On Paul Sachs’s “Museum Course” at Harvard.
On the history of the art market.
On Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures at The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
On “Mantegna and Bellini” at the National Gallery in London.
On “Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On concerns about museums selling their collections.
On “William Dobson: Artist of the Civil War” at Tate Britain.
On the renovation of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art.
On Britain’s Labour Party.
On Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Apologia at the Laura Pels Theatre, and The Lifespan of a Fact at Studio 54.
On the history of the contemporary art survey.
On “Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist” at the Barnes Foundation.
On Nico Muhly’s Marnie and Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, and, at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the violinist Maxim Vengerov in recital, and the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
On the midterm elections.
On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.
On finding inspiration in a personal art collection.
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