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New York City · New YorkThere was a moment in American cultural history when a single individual’s sense of beauty became a civic responsibility. Personal taste, quietly yet firmly expressed through private collections, once shaped public institutions. Today, when committees rather than collectors primarily determine museum acquisitions, it’s worth reflecting on what has been lost and why it might matter. Henry Clay Frick, J. P. Morgan, and Henry E. Huntington were col…Read Article
“The gentleman’s bequest,” by Brett Erickson
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New York City · New YorkNonfiction: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (Bloomsbury): The peak of Babeldom was probably realized during the Neolithic Age, “the moment in the human story,” as Laura Spinney notes in her new book Proto, “when more languages were spoken than at any other”—when a worldwide population in the tens of millions talked in as many as fifteen thousand different tongues. At present, eight billion speakers get by with aroun…Read Article
“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
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Austria · AustriaIn 2018, Mariss Jansons, the late, great Latvian, conducted The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky’s opera, at the Salzburg Festival. In an interview before an audience, I remarked to him that, in the West, Eugene Onegin is the No. 1 Tchaikovsky opera and The Queen of Spades the No. 2. Jansons said that he could not understand that. He preferred The Queen of Spades. He said it belonged among the ten greatest operas. I later wrote, “I don’t have this v…Read Article
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