courtesy of the Städel Museum

Claude Lorrain, View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas, 1675/76, oil on canvas, 47 x 59 inches, Hamburger Kunsthalle

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The Enchanted Landscape

Claude Lorrain in Frankfurt

By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
January 27, 2012

Start making your travel arrangements. One week from today will see the opening of a monographic exhibition of Claude Lorrain at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. “'Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape' presents about one hundred and thirty works…

Fifty Vellums

Tad Wiley at George Lawson Gallery

By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
January 25, 2012

"The vellum support has been a perfect choice," explains Tad Wiley regarding his current exhibition, "in that its smooth surface allows the paint to sit right up on top. However the surface is not without 'tooth', which traps the more thinned out…

Intimate Sketches of New York City

By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
January 19, 2012

Readers of the New York Sun have a new opportunity to own a piece of the paper's history. Vernon Howe Bailey produced a series of pen and ink drawings depicting New York City and environs during the 1930s. For a time, they appeared daily in the New…

NATIONAL ›

Palin Factor Starts To Emerge in GOP Race

By BENYAMIN KORN
January 20, 2012

Who is the leader of the “Not-Romney” movement within today’s GOP? Is it Newt Gingrich, whose surge in the South Carolina opinion polls puts him within striking distance of front-runner Mitt in tomorrow’s vote? Is it Ron Paul, whose dedicated core of…

All Eyes on Gingrich in Wake of His Call for a Commission on the Gold Standard

Candidate’s Call Puts Monetary Reform at Center of Campaign

By ANDRESEN BLOM, Special to the Sun
January 19, 2012

All eyes at the debate tonight will be on the former speaker of the House, and current president aspirant, who this week dramatically moved the political discourse by calling for a new Gold Commission. Mr. Gingrich is no stranger to gold. He was one…

Secret Romney-Ryan Entente Bodes Well for GOP Campaign

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 10, 2012

While so much attention has been turned to Newt Gingrich’s catastrophically mistaken attack on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, free-market capitalism, investment, and profits, a potentially much more significant development occurred in the New Hampshire…

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Santorum’s Fidelity

Editorial of The New York Sun
January 27, 2012

One of the best questions in the Republican debate at Jacksonville will prove, we predict, to be the question about religious faith, and the best answer was the one of Senator Santorum. Ira Stoll at futureofcapitalism.com has a similar reaction. The…

Romney Readies Tax Reform Plan To Deal With Sub-Par Recovery

Aims To Broaden Base by Getting Rid of Deductions, Exemptions, Loopholes, Then Lower Rates

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 27, 2012

One would think that with one of the weakest economic recoveries on record, President Obama would be desperately searching for ways to promote economic growth. It is, after all, an election year. Most pundits and pollsters agree that it’s the economy…

Romney Resisting Reform

Editorial of The New York Sun
January 26, 2012

Governor Romney’s exchange with Lawrence Kudlow in which the governor resisted talk of a gold standard is an important moment in this campaign. It was aired on CNBC yeserday. It reminds us of an exchange we had some years ago with Milton Friedman. At…

Obama’s Tax Proposal Is ‘Designed To Come at Me,’ Romney Charges

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 25, 2012

President Obama's proposal to increase taxes on the rich is “designed to come at me,” GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney told me this morning. In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Obama proposed a minimum 30% tax rate on Americans…

William Jefferson Gingrich

By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
January 25, 2012

How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit but he has all the charm of barbed wire. Newt and Bill are…

EDITORIALS ›

Karl Rove’s Next Move

Editorial of The New York Sun
January 25, 2012

An Elizabeth Warren fund-raising email has reached us outlining the pact she has struck with Scott Brown, her opponent in the senatorial race at Massachusetts. The deal is, she says, “aimed at keeping advertising by Wall Street, Karl Rove, and other…

The Gingrich-Paul Flirtation

Editorial of The New York Sun
January 24, 2012

The shrewdest question of at Tampa last night will, we predict, prove to be when Brian Williams turned to Congressman Ron Paul and asked him point blank: “Would you support a Newt Gingrich as nominee of the GOP?” The libertarian from Texas didn’t miss…

Santorum’s Sagacity

Editorial of The New York Sun
January 24, 2012

One of the best moments in the debate at Tampa came after a break, when Brian Williams of NBC turned to Senator Santorum and said he wanted to get him in on the question of Iran. “Specifically, as a last resort, as you said, taking out Iran's nuclear…

OPINION ›

CONRAD BLACK: A Comeback of Nixonian, If Not Lazarene, Proportions Warrants a Low Bow To Gingrich

Romney Could Hit Problems at Florida Over His Stand on Medicare

By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
January 23, 2012

With the Republican presidential candidates headed to retiree-heavy Florida in advance of its January 31 primary, expect the debate about Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly, to heat up. If voters start focusing on the issue…

Romney Offering the Right Stuff on Obama’s Crony Capitalism

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 20, 2012

Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Mr. Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail…


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