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)
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Geniuses Together
March 27, 2003
Seek My Face
by John Updike
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Modern Art Groupie
June 27, 2002
Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
by Anton Gill
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In Goreyland
March 28, 2002
Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin
The Object-Lesson
by Edward Gorey
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Face to Face with Seurat
October 4, 2001
Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert
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‘The King of the Cats’
May 11, 2000
Balthus
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works
by Virginie Monnier, by Jean Clair
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Confessions of a Child of the Century
December 2, 1999
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
by John Richardson
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
December 17, 1998
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
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‘To the Memory of Childhood’
April 12, 1990
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High Spirits
February 15, 1990
To the Memory of Childhood
by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Eliza Kellogg Klose
Entretiens avec Anna Akhmatova by Lydia Tchoukovskaïa
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Super Trouper
October 11, 1984
Duse: A Biography by William Weaver
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The Return of Meyerhold
July 15, 1982
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
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Pas de deux
December 3, 1981
Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs translated and edited by Irina Nijinska, by Jean Rawlinson, with an introduction by Anna Kisselgoff
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The Spirit of 1917
April 30, 1981
“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
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Master of Letters
January 22, 1981
The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, Vol. I, 1830-1850 edited by Alfred McKinley Terhune, edited by Annabelle Burdick Terhune
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Light and Lively
May 29, 1980
American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875 edited by John Wilmerding
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak
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Hostess with the Mostest
March 6, 1980
Misia: The Life of Misia Sert by Arthur Gold, by Robert Fizdale
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The Words of Van Gogh
April 5, 1979
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
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Life Studies
February 8, 1979
The Three Worlds of Leonid by Leonid Berman, preface by Virgil Thomson, translated by Olivier Bernier
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Reading the Goncourts
March 31, 1977
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The Malraux Show
March 4, 1976
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
