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2006
December
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Aristos Awards
The Joys of Light Music - Jesse F. Knight
The Legacy of Richard Lack - L.T.
CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Muddying the Waters of Classical Realism - L.T.
EXHIBITIONS:
* Painting the Nude (Jacob Collins: Figures) - L.T.
* Slow Painting? (Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance)
BOOKS: Why Teach Art? (on Art and Cognition, by Arthur Efland) - M.M.K.
LETTERS: on Hopper vs. Wyeth


THE BEST OF ARISTOS
[From the Print Archives]
Bouguereau's Legacy, September 1982 - Richard Lack.
On the nineteenth-century French academic painter (see also Letters regarding Bouguereau, below)
The New Dawn of Painting, March 1986 - L.T.
Review of Realism in Revolution: The Art of the Boston Painters (see Note on images).
On Responsible Arts Criticism, August 1984 - L.T.
Letters to New York Times regarding critical bias against Bouguereau, and the absence of letters to the editor
in the "Arts and Leisure" section (see Note on image of Bouguereau painting) - L.T.


August
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Aristos Awards
EXHIBITIONS: Interpreting Goya - M.M.K.
CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: First Paragraphs - L.T.


June
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Aristos Awards
He Felt Like Shooting Himself--A Postscript (more on the censure of a music critic and two composers) - L.T.
EXHIBITIONS:
* Girodet--A Long-Forgotten Romantic - M.M.K.
* John James Audubon--Rara Avis - L.T.


THE BEST OF ARISTOS
[From the Print Archives]
The Child as Poet: An Insidious and Injurious Myth (on The Child as Poet: Myth or Reality? by Myra Cohen Livingston), January 1988 - L.T.
On "The Child as Poet: An Insidious and Injurious Myth" (Letters by Jacques Barzun and others), December 1988
Robert Payne: Uncommon Guide to the World of Art (on his World of Art), December 1993 - M.M.K


January
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Aristos Awards
The Other Face of "Contemporary Art"
EXHIBITIONS: Van Gogh at His Eye-Opening Best - M.M.K.
CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: "The Meaning of Life," "Life-Enhancing Ripples," and Other Inanities - L.T.
BOOKS: Tom Wolfe's Epiphany 30 Years Later - L.T.
LETTERS

2005

December
NOTES & COMMENTS
DANCE: Mark Morris--a Postmodern Traditionalist - M.M.K.
CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Santiago Calatrava: An Architect Who Makes . . . Sculpture? - L.T.
LETTERS: from a sculptor, and a reader
August
NOTES & COMMENTS
MUSIC: He Felt Like Shooting Himself (censure of a music critic and two composers) - L.T.
Modernism, Postmodernism, or Neither?--A Fresh Look at "Fine Art" - M.M.K.
THEATER: Doubtful Pulitzers - M.M.K.
The National Portrait Gallery: Captive to Postmodernism - L.T.
April
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts? - M.M.K.
CRITIQUING THE CRITICS: Art's Porous Borders - L.T.
EXHIBITIONS: A Window onto the Glory of the Italian Renaissance (From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca) - The Editors
February
[Special Issue on Christo's 'Gates']
ARISTOS NEWS: Aristos Editors Dub 'Gates' "Bogus Art"
RELATED LINKS: a, b, and c
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park Website
FROM ARISTOS: "The Sculpture of Central Park"

2004

December
NOTES & COMMENTS
Editors' Note (on "Why We Need a Definition of Art")
Why We Need a Definition of Art by Kenneth M. Lansing


November
NOTES & COMMENTS
When Journalistic Misfeasance Becomes Felony ("The Arts" at the New York Times) - L.T.


May
NOTES & COMMENTS
Sitting on Furniture and Other 'Visual Art' Experiences - L.T.


April
NOTES & COMMENTS
A Tale of Three Operas - M.M.K.
Aeschylus's Persians--Lessons for Today? - M.M.K.
March
NOTES & COMMENTS
EXHIBITIONS: Messages from the Heart (Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer) - L.T.


February
NOTES & COMMENTS
Clueless Critics (& Moderator) - L.T. and M.M.K.
Scholarly Engagement: When It Is Pleasurable, and When It Is Not (from Journal of Ayn Rand Studies) - L.T.


January
NOTES & COMMENTS
Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies' (based on a talk given at the National Art Education Association) - M.M.K.
LETTERS


2003


December
NOTES & COMMENTS
EXHIBITIONS:
* The Dahesh Museum: Reclaiming Academic Art (French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803-1873) - L.T.
* Birds, Birds, Birds (Wings of Hope, Wings of Peace) - L.T.
What "Rand's Aesthetics" Is, and Why It Matters (from Journal of Ayn Rand Studies) - M.M.K.
BOOKS: Not Smart about Art (The Annotated Mona Lisa) - L.T.
FILM: Three Cheers for Seabiscuit! - M.M.K.


August
NOTES & COMMENTS
EXHIBITIONS: Thomas Eakins: Painting Pure Thought (Thomas Eakins) - L.T.
VIRTUAL TOUR: The Sculpture of Central Park
LETTERS


May
NOTES & COMMENTS
Hilton Kramer's Misreading of Abstract Art - M.M.K.
BOOKS: Judging a Book by Its Cover (But Is It Art?) - L.T.
EXHIBITIONS: Bill Viola's Passions--No Kinship to Rubens - M.M.K.
THE ACADEMIC SCENE
* Barnard College: Art Succumbs to Visual Culture - M.M.K.
* Columbia University: The Future of the Art World - L.T.
WORTH READING


January
EDITORS' NOTE: Aristos Re-born Online
Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde - M.M.K.
FILM: Monte Walsh (TNT premiere) - L.T.