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Michael Kimmelman is a longtime critic for The New York Times. A version of his essay in this issue will appear in the collection City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World, edited by Catie Marron and published in April by Harper. (April 2016)
Van Gogh: The Courage & the Cunning
“Real artists paint things not as they are, in a dry analytical way, but as they feel them”
Van Gogh: A Power Seething
by Julian Bell
February 5, 2015 issue
The Art Hitler Hated
For the Nazis, art was an existential threat, which haunted Germany’s fate and still does
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, March 13–September 1, 2014
June 19, 2014 issue
Missionaries
'The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde'
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 21–September 6, 2011; The Grand Palais, Paris, October 3, 2011–January 16, 2012; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 28–June 3, 2012
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fäy, and the Vichy Dilemma
by Barbara Will
Ida: A Novel
by Gertrude Stein, edited by Logan Esdale
April 26, 2012 issue
A Very Wily Believer
Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli
by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti with the author
January 13, 2011 issue
Deuce!
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
June 24, 2010 issue
At the Bad New Ballparks
The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan
by Dana Brand
November 19, 2009 issue
Bad Bargains for Russian Music
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
August 13, 2009 issue
The ‘Mash of Myriad Sounds’
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
September 25, 2008 issue
All in the Family
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971
by Stephen Walsh
August 10, 2006 issue
The Cold War over the Arts
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
by David Caute
May 27, 2004 issue
The Saint
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art
by Sybil Gordon Kantor
November 20, 2003 issue
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