The Death of Public Beauty
How city planning went wrong.
Magazine: Art
It Ain’t a Word!
So if you’ve been saying that certain terms are “not words,” please cease and desist forthwith. What you can say is that it’s a nonword.
By Any Other Name
The tale of a downwardly mobile portrait.
The Peanuts Papers: An Appreciation of the World Charles Schulz Created
A review of The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, edited by Andrew Blauner.
Yale Teaches World Art
A good survey course should look at beauty in the West and beyond.
Andy Warhola’s Religion
An exhibition at the Warhol Museum explores the artist’s Byzantine-Catholic side.
Sparks of Genius
Brian T. Allen reviews The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, by Mark Lamster.
Committee Art
Brian T. Allen reviews Art from the Swamp: How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art, by Bruce Cole.
The Master of Iowa
John J. Miller visits the Whitney Museum’s Grant Wood exhibition.
The Kimono Kerfuffle
In Boston, a Monet painting reveals the Balkanized American mind.