The critical tide is turning, once again. The professional critics—and not just the old, curmudgeonly ones—are fed up with moralizing, and they are willing to […]
Toward the end of my teens, it began to dawn on me that my face was probably fully formed. That no radical change was forthcoming. […]
I’m an art critic. Most of my writing is on my website, the Manhattan Art Review. Probably the most distinctive feature of the site, and […]
It was another day on the internet: a critic expressed her shock that the hit film Tár was not the true story she’d believed it […]
She was not beautiful, but she looked like she was. She was practically famous for it in the cloistered social universe of the liberal arts […]
Your Hatch alarm clock gently brightens your bedroom, tricking you into thinking you’re rising with the sun. You yawn as you sit up, stretching out […]
Art is committed to that perception of the world which alienates individuals from their functional existence and performance in society—it is committed to an emancipation […]
I seem to be getting more and more superficial as I get older. As a teenager, I was a devotee of Hamlet, whose horror at […]
The history of painting is often told as a procession of beautiful achievements, running roughly from the fifteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, at which point […]
Up the street from my house in Amman, Jordan, there is an empty lot. Central Amman is built on steep hills, with narrow valleys between […]
For five months last year I was going to be a mother.
Alexander Nehamas recently retired from Princeton University, where he was a professor of philosophy and comparative literature for over thirty years. In his 2007 book […]
What does it mean to face the question of beauty every day, not just personally but professionally? This spring we surveyed models, cosmetic physicians, influencers […]
In Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg’s latest film, bodies are changing. An undisclosed number of years into our future—or perhaps the film takes place […]
While walking toward the library, I wondered if there had been a mistake. I had been given a list of poems, essays and reviews published […]
