John Russell
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
From the Review
March 27, 2003: Geniuses Together
Seek My Face by John Updike
June 27, 2002: Modern Art Groupie
Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill
March 28, 2002: In Goreyland
Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin
The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey
October 4, 2001: Face to Face with Seurat
Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert
April 12, 2001: Comrade Picasso
Picasso: The Communist Years Gertje R. Utley
May 11, 2000: 'The King of the Cats'
Balthus by Nicholas Fox Weber
Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works by Virginie Monnier, by Jean Clair
December 2, 1999: Confessions of a Child of the Century
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson
December 17, 1998: Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 edited by Jonathan W. Bernard
The Music of Elliott Carter, second edition by David Schiff, foreword by Elliott Carter
April 12, 1990: 'To the Memory of Childhood' (letter)
February 15, 1990: High Spirits
To the Memory of Childhood by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Eliza Kellogg Klose
Entretiens avec Anna Akhmatova by Lydia Tchoukovskaïa
October 11, 1984: Super Trouper
Duse: A Biography by William Weaver
July 15, 1982: The Return of Meyerhold
Meyerhold the Director by Konstantin Rudnitsky, translated by George Petrov, edited by Sydney Schultze
Meyerhold at Work edited by Paul Schmidt, translated by Paul Schmidt, by Ilya Levin, by Vern McGee
December 3, 1981: Pas de deux
Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs translated and edited by Irina Nijinska, by Jean Rawlinson, with an introduction by Anna Kisselgoff
April 30, 1981: The Spirit of 1917
"Parade: An Evening of French Music Theatre": Parade by Erik Satie, choreography by Gray Veredon
Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc, libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel, libretto by Colette, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal, produced by John Dexter, sets and costumes by David Hockney, lighting by Gil Wechsler
January 22, 1981: Master of Letters
The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, Vol. I, 1830-1850 edited by Alfred McKinley Terhune, edited by Annabelle Burdick Terhune
May 29, 1980: Light and Lively
American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875 edited by John Wilmerding
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak
March 6, 1980: Hostess with the Mostest
Misia: The Life of Misia Sert by Arthur Gold, by Robert Fizdale
April 5, 1979: The Words of Van Gogh
The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Letters of Vincent van Gogh, 1886-1890: A Facsimile Edition (Amsterdam) with an introduction by V.W. van Gogh
February 8, 1979: Life Studies
The Three Worlds of Leonid by Leonid Berman, preface by Virgil Thomson, translated by Olivier Bernier
March 31, 1977: Reading the Goncourts (letter)
March 4, 1976: The Malraux Show
André Malraux by Jean Lacouture, translated by Alan Sheridan
Malraux's Heroes and History by James W. Greenlee
Hôtes de Passage by André Malraux
Lazare by André Malraux
La Tête d'obsidienne by André Malraux
Books by John Russell
Stupid Kids (2000)