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In Manhattan, bar murals are back: four places to drink a cocktail surrounded by art
This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to New York Dotted across Manhattan’s most historic bars, large frescoes immerse patrons...
The Critic’s Notebook
Nonfiction: Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome, by Josiah Osgood (Basic Books): The legal and political speeches of Cicero are so ingeniously constructed, so stylistically definitive, that even the non-Latinist might benefit from reading them in the original. But to read his arguments against their times, as Josiah Osgood does in the new Lawless Republic, affords a different sort of illumination.
“Mexican magic,” by Paul du Quenoy
As a deep freeze settled in the nation’s capital in the days before Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration, the National Symphony pursued a bold program with a tinge from south of the troubled border.
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A ghostly look at Nantucket's historic architecture
(Oct. 31, 2024) It should come as no surprise, given their age, that several of Nantucket’s most iconic and historic buildings are believed to be haunted. But they are not only notable for the spirits rumored to occupy them, they also happen to be some of the best-preserved examples of early American architecture. It is perhaps due to this tradition of historic stewardship that the island has earned its reputation as a haven for ghosts.
A true part of the story
Moses Jacob Ezekiel (1844–1917) was one of the most celebrated sculptors of his day. A religious minority in America who became an expatriate in Europe, his work was lauded the world over. Once, he kneeled to be knighted by European monarchs; today, his most famous memorial is slated to be torn down by our own Department of Defense. Ezekiel was a Virginian and a practicing Jew who sailed across the seas to live in Catholic Rome.
Flashes of lightning
Leo Tolstoy, 1908, Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire. Photo: Karl Bulla. Flashes of lightning Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Eric Ormsby is the author of The Baboons of Hada, a selection of his poems (Carcanet).
Milton Avery: then & now
In the new art we can trace two main currents; in one synthesis predominates, in the other analysis; the latter preponderates enormously. Indeed, this is the direction in which abstract art has tended to develop ever since the Renaissance. —Julius Meier-Graefe, 1908 Why talk when you can paint? —Milton Avery Until I started researching a show now at The Phillips Collection[1] (and I found that book), the whole experience was a sort of broken memory.
The millennium mill
“The last day, not only of our lives, but of the world, is upon us.” But, from his vantage point safely in the eleventh century, Glaber chattily continued, “by the coming of the third year after the year 1000, churches and buildings everywhere were again being rebuilt . . . It was as if the very world was shaking itself rid of its decrepitude and everywhere put on a white mantle of churches.” So much for the end of the world.
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