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Most populargo to the complete list »December 2008Volume 27, Number 4Notes & comments On democratic despotism. On Gérard Mortier and the City Opera. Features by Karen Wilkin On “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. American art: the authorized version On American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, by Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts. by Eric Gibson On "Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture" & "Houdon at the Louvre." December 2008Volume 27, Number 4Departments Poems Verse Chronicle On Red Bird by Mary Oliver, Ours by Cole Swensen, Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James, Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa, Figure Studies by Claudia Emerson, One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds. Theater by Brooke Allen On A Man for All Seasons at the American Airlines Theatre, and To Be or Not to Be at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Romantic Poetry at City Center. Art On "Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. by Nola Tully On "Oceans, Rivers & Skies: Anselm Adams, Robert Adams & Alfred Stieglitz" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. by Mario Naves On "George Tooker: A Retrospective" at The National Academy, New York. Music On Menahem Pressler & Richard Stoltzman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, James Levine & the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly & Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera, and Lang Lang with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall. The Media December 2008Volume 27, Number 4Books 
on The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II by Oscar Hammerstein II,Amy Asch,Ted Chapin reviewed by Mark Steyn 
on Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto reviewed by Alec Solomita |
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