Michael Kimmelman | The New York Review of Books

The Craving for Public Squares

Why we need creative, open, inviting public spaces

April 7, 2016 issue

Becoming van Gogh

A series of Vincent van Gogh’s sketches and paintings, with commentary by Michael Kimmelman.

January 28, 2015

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

Gertrude Stein & Fascism

July 12, 2012 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

Letter

Michael Kimmelman

Gertrude Stein & Fascism

July 12, 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

The Last Act

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

by Janet Malcolm

October 25, 2007 issue

A Hero of Our Time

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

by Martin Duberman

June 14, 2007 issue

All in the Family

Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971

by Stephen Walsh

August 10, 2006 issue

Letter

The Editors

Correction

October 5, 2006 issue

Letter

Robert Craft

‘Stravinsky: the Second Exile’

September 21, 2006 issue

The Dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

by Ada Louise Huxtable

August 11, 2005 issue

The Undefeated

William Kapell Edition

by William Kapell

March 24, 2005 issue

William Kapell Died

November 4, 2004 issue

Lone Star

Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

by Kevin Bazzana

October 7, 2004 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