The Incomparable Florine Stettheimer
A review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography, by Barbara Bloemink.
Magazine: Art
Balanchine’s Ideal Women
A review of Serenade: A Balanchine Story, by Toni Bentley.
Canceling the Conductor
When art and politics commingle.
Taking a Second Look with Jasper Johns
A tribute to our cacophonous and commercial republic.
The Glory That Is Greece, the Grandeur That Is Rome
Why classical antiquity matters today.
When David Met Lisa
In 1503, Michelangelo and Leonardo changed the future of Western art.
Visible Ink
Getting a tattoo is a choice, an exercise of free will, but it is revocable only with difficulty.
America, Land of Craft
A review of Craft: An American History, by Glenn Adamson.
Our Literary Drought
Novelists, poets, and critics seek a higher truth, but today’s pickings are slim.
Hamlet and Oedipus Meet the Zombies
Insistence on art as indoctrination is obscenity, denying the possibility of human connection to truths superior to human understanding, that is, to God.