December 2009

Forthcoming: The Interminable Monopoly of the Avant-Garde - L.T.

JACQUES BARZUN AT 102

Longtime readers of Aristos know of cultural historian Jacques Barzun's generous support of our work. On November 30, he celebrated his 102nd birthday. A few weeks before, a visitor had found him looking "good and stately with his wonderfully infectious smile," reading in a book on rhetoric. We take this opportunity to wish him many similar pleasures of the mind in the coming year.

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EXHIBITION REVIEW
Vermeer's Milkmaid: More Than Meets the Eye - Michelle Marder Kamhi

The Curator Says It's About Sex - Louis Torres
On a controversial interpretation of Vermeer's Milkmaid.

WebCommentary - Louis Torres

ARCHIVES (2003-2009)

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? - The classical tradition in music is changing under the influence of new technology. Should we be alarmed? (Financial Times, 5/29/09)

Goodbye, Mr. Keating - An English professor, writing under a pseudonym, reflects upon the idealism inspiring his students to teach literature, and the compromises they would be forced to

What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000) Chapter summaries, reviews / responses. . . .

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What Art Is Online (2000-2003)
Supplement to What Art Is-- articles and excerpts

Readings on Art Education

Jack Schaefer (1907-1991): On the author of Shane

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