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2009
- December
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- EXHIBITION REVIEW: Vermeer's Milkmaid: More Than Meets the Eye - M.M.K.
- The Curator Says It's About Sex - L. T.
On a controversial interpretation of Vermeer's Milkmaid - WebCommentary - L.T.
- THE BEST OF ARISTOS [From our print archives]
Ayn Rand's We the Living: New Life in a Restored Film Version (December 1988).
See Notes & Comments for information on the new two-disc Special Edition DVD. - WORTH READING [From other periodicals]
• Is Classical Music Trying to Be Fashionable? (Financial Times, 5/29/09)
• Goodbye, Mr. Keating (The Chronicle, 7/7/06)
- August
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- WebCommentary [six new entries] - L.T.
- LETTERS
• John Silber, President Emeritus, Boston University
• Shelbye J. Reese, Art teacher, Hart County (Ga.) H.S. - WORTH READING
- • First Impressions - What does the world's oldest art say about us? (The New Yorker, 6/23/08). See also "The Earliest Artists" in "Robert Payne: Uncommon Guide to the World of Art" (Aristos, 12/93)
- • Disputations: The Untouchables - Why it's blasphemous to alter Shakespeare's words for a modern audience (The New Republic, 7/14/09)
- July
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- What Hope Is There for Art Education? - M.M.K.
- BOOKS: At His Father's Knee (review of Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art, by John Silber) - Louis Torres
- WebCommentary - L.T.
- LETTERS - Samuel Knecht, Chairman, Hillsdale College Department of Art
- WORTH READING
- • Thomas Jefferson, Musician (Wall Street Journal, 7/2/09)
- • Old Masters: Overlooked Women Artists (Joan Altabe, Gadfly Online, 1/14/02)
- 2008
- June
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- What About the Other Face of Contemporary Art? - M.M.K. & L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS: Painting Landscapes, Then and Now (Jacob Collins at Hirschl & Adler Modern) - L.T.
- Museum Miseducation: Perpetuating the Duchamp Myth - M.M.K.
- LETTERS - Julian Spalding (responding to review of his Eclipse of Art)
- WORTH READING: The Myth of the Mozart Effect (from eSkeptic)
- 2007
- November
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- The Intrepid Mrs. Sally James Farnham: An American Sculptor Rediscovered - Michael P. Reed
- Unveiling Sally James Farnham's Bolívar: A Youthful Memoir - Mariquita MacManus Mullan
- Reflections on "Classical Realism" - Jacob Collins
- Thought and Feeling in Art - M.M.K.
- BOOKS: Artworld Maverick (review of The Eclipse of Art, by Julian Spalding) - L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS
• Richard Serra's Fun House at MoMA - M.M.K
• Night and Day at the Morgan - M.M.K. - LETTERS - Jacob Collins, Painter
2006
- December
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- The Joys of Light Music - Jesse F. Knight
- The Legacy of Richard Lack - L.T.
- CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Muddying the Waters of Classical Realism - L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS:
- • Painting the Nude (Jacob Collins: Figures) - L.T.
• Slow Painting? (Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance) - BOOKS: Why Teach Art? (on Art and Cognition, by Arthur Efland) - M.M.K.
- LETTERS: on Hopper vs. Wyeth
- THE BEST OF ARISTOS
[From the Print Archives] - Bouguereau's Legacy, September 1982 - Richard Lack.
On the nineteenth-century French academic painter (see also Letters regarding Bouguereau, below) - The New Dawn of Painting, March 1986 - L.T.
Review of Realism in Revolution: The Art of the Boston Painters (see Note on images). - On Responsible Arts Criticism, August 1984 - L.T.
Letters to New York Times regarding critical bias against Bouguereau, and the absence of letters to the editor
in the "Arts and Leisure" section (see Note on image of Bouguereau painting) - L.T. - August
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- EXHIBITIONS: Interpreting Goya - M.M.K.
- CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: First Paragraphs - L.T.
- June
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- He Felt Like Shooting Himself--A Postscript (more on the censure of a music critic and two composers) - L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS:
• Girodet--A Long-Forgotten Romantic - M.M.K.
• John James Audubon--Rara Avis - L.T. - THE BEST OF ARISTOS
- [From the Print Archives]
- The Child as Poet: An Insidious and Injurious Myth (on The Child as Poet: Myth or Reality? by Myra Cohen Livingston), January 1988 - L.T.
- On "The Child as Poet: An Insidious and Injurious Myth" (Letters by Jacques Barzun and others), December 1988
- Robert Payne: Uncommon Guide to the World of Art (on his World of Art), December 1993 - M.M.K
- January
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- The Other Face of "Contemporary Art"
- EXHIBITIONS: Van Gogh at His Eye-Opening Best - M.M.K.
- CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: "The Meaning of Life," "Life-Enhancing Ripples," and Other Inanities - L.T.
- BOOKS: Tom Wolfe's Epiphany (on The Painted Word)- L.T.
- LETTERS
2005
- December
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- DANCE: Mark Morris--a Postmodern Traditionalist - M.M.K.
- CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Santiago Calatrava: An Architect Who Makes . . . Sculpture? - L.T.
- LETTERS: from a sculptor, and a reader
- August
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- MUSIC: He Felt Like Shooting Himself (censure of a music critic and two composers) - L.T.
- Modernism, Postmodernism, or Neither?--A Fresh Look at "Fine Art" - M.M.K.
- THEATER: Doubtful Pulitzers - M.M.K.
- The National Portrait Gallery: Captive to Postmodernism - L.T.
- April
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- The Boston Museum of Fine Arts? - M.M.K.
- CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Art's Porous Borders - L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS: A Window onto the Glory of the Italian Renaissance (From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca) - The Editors
- February
- [Special Issue on Christo's 'Gates']
- ARISTOS NEWS: Aristos Editors Dub 'Gates' "Bogus Art"
- RELATED LINKS: a, b, and c
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Central Park Website
- FROM ARISTOS: "The Sculpture of Central Park"
2004
- December
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- Editors' Note (on "Why We Need a Definition of Art")
- Why We Need a Definition of Art by Kenneth M. Lansing
- November
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- When Journalistic Misfeasance Becomes Felony ("The Arts" at the New York Times) - L.T.
- May
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- Sitting on Furniture and Other 'Visual Art' Experiences - L.T.
- April
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- A Tale of Three Operas - M.M.K.
- Aeschylus's Persians--Lessons for Today? - M.M.K.
- March
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- EXHIBITIONS: Messages from the Heart (Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer) - L.T.
- February
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- Clueless Critics (& Moderator) - L.T. and M.M.K.
- Scholarly Engagement: When It Is Pleasurable, and When It Is Not (from Journal of Ayn Rand Studies) - L.T.
- January
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies' (based on a talk given at the National Art Education Association) - M.M.K.
- LETTERS
- 2003
- December
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- EXHIBITIONS:
• The Dahesh Museum: Reclaiming Academic Art (French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803-1873) - L.T.
• Birds, Birds, Birds (Wings of Hope, Wings of Peace) - L.T. - What "Rand's Aesthetics" Is, and Why It Matters (from Journal of Ayn Rand Studies) - M.M.K.
- BOOKS: Not Smart about Art (The Annotated Mona Lisa) - L.T.
- FILM: Three Cheers for Seabiscuit! - M.M.K.
- August
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- EXHIBITIONS: Thomas Eakins: Painting Pure Thought (Thomas Eakins) - L.T.
- VIRTUAL TOUR: The Sculpture of Central Park
- LETTERS
- May
- NOTES & COMMENTS
- Hilton Kramer's Misreading of Abstract Art - M.M.K.
- BOOKS: Judging a Book by Its Cover (review of But Is It Art? by Cynthia Freeland) - L.T.
- EXHIBITIONS: Bill Viola's Passions--No Kinship to Rubens - M.M.K.
- THE ACADEMIC SCENE
• Barnard College: Art Succumbs to Visual Culture - M.M.K.
• Columbia University: The Future of the Art World - L.T. - WORTH READING
- January
- EDITORS' NOTE: Aristos Re-born Online
- Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde - M.M.K.
- FILM: Monte Walsh (TNT premiere) - L.T.