Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (January 2011)
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A Very Wily Believer
January 13, 2011
Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli
by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti with the author
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Deuce!
June 24, 2010
Open: An Autobiography
by Andre Agassi
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played
by Marshall Jon Fisher
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At the Bad New Ballparks
November 19, 2009
The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan
by Dana Brand
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Bad Bargains for Russian Music
August 13, 2009
The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years
by Simon Morrison
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
by Richard Taruskin
On Russian Music
by Richard Taruskin
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The ‘Mash of Myriad Sounds’
September 25, 2008
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
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The Last Act
October 25, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm
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A Hero of Our Time
June 14, 2007
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
by Martin Duberman
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All in the Family
August 10, 2006
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971
by Stephen Walsh
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The Dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright
August 11, 2005
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
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The Undefeated
March 24, 2005
William Kapell Edition by William Kapell
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William Kapell Died
November 4, 2004
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Lone Star
October 7, 2004
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
by Kevin Bazzana
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The Cold War over the Arts
May 27, 2004
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
by David Caute
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The Saint
November 20, 2003
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art
by Sybil Gordon Kantor
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Piano Portraits
June 12, 2003
Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer
translated by Richard Stokes
Mozart Piano Sonatas, K. 310, K. 311, and K. 533/494; Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397 Alfred Brendel, pianist
Alfred Brendel Live in Salzburg Alfred Brendel, pianist
Dreizehn Engel/Thirteen Angels: Poems by Alfred Brendel; Etchings, Drawings, and Sculptures by George Nama
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Elisabeth Kashey
Vladimir de Pachmann: A Piano Virtuoso’s Life and Art
Pachmann, the Mythic Pianist: 1907–1927 Recordings
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Music, Maestro, Please!
November 7, 2002
The Letters of Arturo Toscanini
compiled, edited, and translated from the Italian by Harvey Sachs
Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years
by Mortimer H. Frank
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The Keys to Beethoven
May 23, 2002
Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
by Charles Rosen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Music a recording by Charles Rosen
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Wandering Minstrel
November 1, 2001
Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations
by Bruno Monsaingeon,translated from the French by Stewart Spencer
Richter the Enigma a film by Bruno Monsaingeon
RichterRediscoveredCarnegie Hall Recital RCA Red Seal