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August 12, 2009
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February 5, 2007
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Laissez-Faire Aesthetics
What money is doing to art, or how the artworld lost its mind.
November 13, 2006
Stanley Kauffmann
Men at Arms
October 30, 2006
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The Varieties of Artistic Experience
June 26, 2006
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Peep Shows for Poets
December 20, 2004
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Mixed Blessings
December 20, 2004
Robert Brustein
The Rebirth of Political Theater
May 5, 2003
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Everyday Symbolist
March 3, 2003
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Hash of the Titans
March 3, 2003
Stanley Kauffmann
A Dilemma of Old
March 3, 2003
Anthony T. Grafton
The Magician
July 22, 2002
Rochelle Gurstein
The Mystic Smile
Why the Mona Lisa remains one of the most famous paintings in the world
April 1, 2002
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Saint Gerhard of the Sorrows of Painting
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October 29, 2001
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Jed Perl on Art: The Contrarian
September 24, 2001
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December 27, 1999
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High Low
An art critic goes to see a Norman Rockwell retrospective
December 2, 1996
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Flag Burning
Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.
March 27, 1989
John Updike
Fast Art
The sweatless creations of Andy Warhol.
December 26, 1988
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Eraserface
George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.

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