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Wooden fugues
In her later years, the sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was one of the most famous artists of…
Good riddance
The death of Aldrich Ames, earlier this month, went by almost unnoticed. That’s a shame. It’s a name…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Art: Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of George Washington, Marble, Robert Simon Fine Art. The…
Open letters
In 1887, at the aptly named “Horizon of the Sun Disk,” a new dawn broke on our understanding of the…
“Walks on the wild side,” by Jay Nordlinger
When I arrived at David Geffen Hall for the New York Philharmonic’s concert on Friday evening, a…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Archeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Basilica Designed by Vitruvius: ‘The…
Play it again, Igor
Sometime before Christmas, I saw that Igor Levit would be playing a recital in Carnegie Hall on…
“A quiet literary life,” by David Platzer
Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor…
A requiem for Europe
I made the decision to move to Hungary just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, fully intending to…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Art: A self-portrait of the artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1985). “Richard Pousette-Dart: Geometry of…
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