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The Passion of Graham Greene

August 16, 1990 issue

Hopper’s Polluted Silence

Edward Hopper and the American Imagination 22–October 15

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June

Edward Hopper and the American Imagination

catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Lyons and Adam D. Weinberg. edited by Julie Grau, with contributions by fourteen others

Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist

by Gail Levin

Edward Hopper's New England

by Carl Little

Hopper

by Mark Strand

Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné

edited by Gail Levin

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August 10, 1995 issue

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A Wee Irish Suite

October 23, 2008 issue

Splendid Lies

In the century and half since Turner’s death in 1851, evolving taste has reversed the debate over his merits.

J.M.W. Turner

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10–May 18, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24–September 21, 2008

August 14, 2008 issue

‘The Clarity of Things’

June 26, 2008 issue

Nocturnes

Georges Seurat: The Drawings

Catalog of the exhibition by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, and Richard Thomson

January 17, 2008 issue

Gold & Geld

“Does its subject’s lush, heavy-lipped, dark-browed, green-eyed face, beneath a black blob of hair and above a silver-encrusted collar, really mesh with the astonishing efflorescence of perspective-free patterns—eyes, spirals, squares, streaks, and splotches, ostensibly related to the wistful sitter’s dress, robe, and armchair?”

Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.

December 20, 2007 issue

The Purest of Styles

Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard

Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker

November 22, 2007 issue

Serra’s Triumph

Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke

July 19, 2007 issue

Frankie Laine (1913–2007)

May 31, 2007 issue

After Katrina

New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

After the Flood

by Robert Polidori, with an introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim

November 30, 2006 issue

The Artful Clarks

The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings

Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.

October 5, 2006 issue

The Artist as Prospector

Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape

Catalog of the exhibition by Gail S. Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates,Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, and Karal Ann Marling

August 10, 2006 issue

Lucian Freud

May 25, 2006 issue

Love of Fact

Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church

Catalog of the exhibit by Kevin J. Avery, with anintroduction by John Wilmerding

March 23, 2006 issue

Determined Spirit

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop

December 1, 2005 issue

Beyond Real

Max Ernst: A Retrospective

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald

Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle

by Robert McNab, with a preface by Werner Spies

Surrealism USA

Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Isabelle Dervaux

May 26, 2005 issue

Letter

Leo Steinberg

Max Ernst’s Blasphemy

September 22, 2005 issue

Letter

Glenn F. Benge

Ernst’s Elephant

June 23, 2005 issue

The Blessings of the Sun

May 12, 2005 issue

Making Faces

Gilbert Stuart

Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles

December 2, 2004 issue

Libido Lite

November 18, 2004 issue

Street Arab

Childe Hassam, American Impressionist

Catalog of the exhibition edited by H. Barbara Weinberg

July 15, 2004 issue

Chasing After Providence

December 4, 2003 issue