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The New Criterion

Quite simply, the best cultural review in the world
- John O’Sullivan

December 2009

Volume 28, Number 4

Notes & comments

Features

The Bauhaus restored

by Michael J. Lewis

On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Devotion, Italian style

by Marco Grassi

On “reading” early Italian painting.

Gorky in Philadelphia

by Karen Wilkin

On “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Bright-eyed British modern

by Eric Gibson

On “Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill,” at the Royal Academy.

Kandinsky's hocus-pocus

by Mario Naves

On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

The art market explained

by James Panero

Why the bubble won't pop for Pop.

December 2009

Volume 28, Number 4

Departments

Poems


Theater

The boy in the grey flannel suit

by Kevin D. Williamson

On Good Bobby at 59e59, Willem Dafoe in The Idiot Savant, Oleanna & Proof.


Art

Eero's modern fossils

by Mildred F. Schmertz

On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York.

Exhibition note

by Leann Davis Alspaugh

On "Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition note

by Nola Tully

On "Looking In: Robert Franks's The Americans" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition note

by Roger Kimball

On "The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700" at The National Gallery, London.


Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

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

Denial of the obvious

by James Bowman

On the "necessary lies" of the liberal media.


Verse Chronicle

From "stinko" to Devo

by William Logan

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

Loose ends in Liverpool

by Anthony Daniels

Reflections from the Walker Art Gallery.

December 2009

Volume 28, Number 4

Books

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Medieval Will

on Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

by Curtis Perry,John Watkins

reviewed by Paul Dean

Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World

Still four

on Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World

by Mariana Cook,Robert Clifford Gunning

reviewed by Martin Gardner

Concerning E. M. Forster

Not only connected

on Concerning E. M. Forster

by Frank Kermode

reviewed by Brooke Allen

Book title

Red skateboard baby

on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood

by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

reviewed by Paul Hollander

Book title

After the masterpiece

on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky

reviewed by Alexander Nazaryan


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