WeblogThe Reid Bill: coercive and unconstitutional by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media by James Bowman | Dec 21, 2009 06:02 PM Picture worth a thousand words department . . . by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media Most populargo to the complete list »December 2009Volume 28, Number 4Notes & comments Features On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. by Karen Wilkin On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. by Eric Gibson On “Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill,” at the Royal Academy. by Mario Naves On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. December 2009Volume 28, Number 4Departments Poems Theater The boy in the grey flannel suit On Good Bobby at 59e59, Willem Dafoe in The Idiot Savant, Oleanna & Proof. Art On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York. On "Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. by Nola Tully On "Looking In: Robert Franks's The Americans" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On "The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700" at The National Gallery, London. Music 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. The Media Verse Chronicle 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. Notebook December 2009Volume 28, Number 4Books on Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World by Mariana Cook,Robert Clifford Gunning reviewed by Martin Gardner on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reviewed by Paul Hollander on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky reviewed by Alexander Nazaryan |