Absinthe minded
by Barnaby Conrad III
On the preferred potable of Paris’s avant-garde.
Features
The three faces of Lafayette
by Michele H. Bogart
On Daniel Chester French’s Marquis de Lafayette.
A study in contrasts
by James Panero
On “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rodin & Michelangelo: a speculation
by Eric Gibson
On the masters’ parallel methods.
Restoration drama
by Michael J. Lewis
On the newly reconstructed Berliner Stadtschloss façade.
Notes on “Le Serf”
by William Tucker
On the missing arms of Matisse’s Le Serf.
Yesterday’s tomorrow
by Karen Wilkin
On “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Letter from London
National & international
by Benjamin Riley
On Modern Buildings in London by Ian Nairn & the exhibitions “Portraits of Dogs” & “Turner and Bonington” at the Wallace Collection, London.
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Reconsiderations
The Rousseau of the Caucasus
by Isaac Sligh
On the much-neglected Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani.
Theater
Misplaced energies
by Kyle Smith
On Sabbath’s Theater, Gutenberg! The Musical! & Emergence.
Art
From Rome, with art
by Marco Grassi
On “The Hub of the World: Art in Eighteenth-Century Rome” at Nicholas Hall, New York.
Picasso by parts
by Mario Naves
On “Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Picasso in Fontainebleau” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall & the Park Avenue Armory.
The media
Killing with kindness
by James Bowman
On the Left’s anti-Semitism problem.
Verse chronicle
Modern love, ancient war
by William Logan
On new poetry by Whitney Hanson, Terrance Hayes, Catherine Tufariello, Nicole Sealey & Ishion Hutchinson & Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad.
Books
Older than Methuselah
by Joshua T. Katz
A review of The Oldest Book in the World by Bill Manley.
Capital man
by Timothy Jacobson
A review of Before the Gilded Age by Mark L. Goldstein.
The calm high place
by Patrick Kurp
A review of The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert.
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Notebook
Alone in a room
by Pat Lipsky
On a day in the artist’s studio.
Notes & Comments
Tenured barbarians
by The Editors
On academic anti-Semitism.