Art
Exiled abstraction
From the emergence of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 to the 1956 Hungarian…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Revolutionary faith”Alexander Lee, The Critic After the French…
Objective grounds in Israel
German artists and intellectuals in the 1920s interpreted their new reality, shaped by the traumatic…
The Critic’s Notebook
Fiction: The Comfort Letter, by Arthur R. G. Solmssen (Tivoli Books): Ordway Smith, the…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Expertest Artificers”Kate Heard, The London Review of Books As…
“Rediscovering the Bronze Age,” by David Platzer
When we call the Bronze Age (2300–800 B.C.) prehistoric, that does not apply to ancient Egypt,…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Nonfiction: London in Stride: An Insider’s Walking Guide, by Jessie Kanelos Weiner and Felicity…
Trump’s Triumphal Arch Is An Important Rebellion…
The greatness of neoclassical art and architecture lies not merely in historical memory but in…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Art: Hermann Weyer, Virtue or Fortitude Vanquishing Ignorance before the Allegories of the Arts, …
Wooden fugues
In her later years, the sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was one of the most famous artists of…
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