The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection

Edward Steichen, Rodin-The Thinker, 1902. Gum bichromate print,15-1/2 x 19 inches

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When Exposure Required Composure

Rodin never looked so august as when he sat for Edward Steichen

By DAVID COHEN
August 28, 2010

The great romantic sculptor enlisted a number of photographers not merely to document his oeuvre but to mythologize his creativity. American Edward Steichen rose to the challenge, employing chiaroscuro and and double exposure to abut creator and…

‘Winslow Homer and the Poetics Of Place’ Get a Brilliant Showing At the Portland Museum of Art

By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
August 12, 2010

One of our favorite stories about painting concerns an amateur who, alone on a desolate stretch of coast, was working at a French easel, trying to capture the surf, when he became aware of someone behind him. He turned around and the stranger asked…

Modernism Under the Radar

Joa Baldinger on view at the Ayn Foundation, Sagaponak through September

By DAVID COHEN
August 6, 2010

One of the Hampton’s quietest—and classiest—arts organizations is the Ayn Foundation’s Sagaponack, NY outpost. A chapel-like white cube within a barn across the road from a vineyard, the Ayn is a perfect home for the work of painter Joa Baldinger, who…

Remembering the Reporter Who Inspired 'On the Waterfront'

By SAUL ROSENBERG
July 26, 2010

In May 1948, in a scene that might have come from a gangster movie, a man leapt out of a sedan and fired seven shots at a stevedore named Tom Collentine, three into his prostrate body. As had become routine in previous decades, most New York papers…

The world on his own terms

Realist Rackstraw Downes has shows in New York City, the Hamptons, and Ridgefield, Connecticut

By DAVID COHEN
July 23, 2010

This is the summer for Rackstraw Downes. A trifecta of exhibitions to savor in the Tristate area include a survey of drawings on view at Betty Cuningham Gallery through July 30; Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, is at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton…

Amanda Gordon Is Out & About

Let the Fall Gala Season Begin...Library Releases Gala Details Wed, 4 Aug 2010 4:07 PM

MoMA Opening: "The Original Copy: The Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today" Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03 AM

Peter Stein bows out of Met Opera's New Production of Boris Godunov Wed, 21 Jul 2010 5:32 PM

Handing the Torch of Liberty to a Newspaperman Sat, 5 Jun 2010 5:45 PM

MoMA and Givenchy to Fete Marina Abramovic Tonight Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:44 AM

The Many Faces of MoMA's Patrons Sun, 30 May 2010 12:15 PM

Broadway Meets Broadway (with Detours to D.C. and Haiti) Fri, 28 May 2010 11:26 PM

For the Kitchen Fri, 28 May 2010 8:51 PM

Achi's Heroes: Pediatric Cardiology Patients Toast Dr. Ludomirsky, Raise $3 million for children's health services at NYU Langone Medical Center Fri, 28 May 2010 5:47 PM

Creative Time Crashes Chinatown: Peking Duck, Karaoke Fete Andrea and Marc Glimcher Thu, 20 May 2010 12:31 AM

Jon Tisch's Civil Society Fri, 7 May 2010 12:25 AM

A Stage Busting Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:08 PM

Party Artifacts * The Balletomane's Menu Fri, 30 Apr 2010 7:01 PM

The Party that Launched A Newspaper War Tue, 27 Apr 2010 3:01 AM

Meet Kate Light, Making Music with New York City Opera, Ovid, and the Dick Van Dyke Show Wed, 7 Apr 2010 9:00 AM

Conserving McKim Mead & White Drawings...Edward Jay Epstein's Hollywood Number Crunching... Polishing Diamonds at the Frick Fri, 5 Mar 2010 7:24 PM

The Place to Be Tonight: Frederic Franklin Dances Through Time Mon, 11 Jan 2010 8:18 AM

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None Dare Call It Inflation

Editorial of The New York Sun
September 4, 2010

“What about inflation?” is the question that Paul Krugman puts in the middle of a column this week run out under the headline “The Real Story.” The column is an attempt to debunk those who have been warning that President Obama’s massive stimulus…

The Gold Audit

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 31, 2010

With the value of the Obama dollar collapsing, why in the world wouldn't Americans want to make sure of their holdings in gold.

Correction?

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 20, 2010

It is suggested by a reader that next week — the 175th anniversary of what is called by competing newspapers the Sun’s great moon “hoax” — would be an apt moment to issue a long overdue correction. Our correspondent writes in respect of a series of…

Mission Accomplished?

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 19, 2010

President Obama declares America's combat mission has ended in Iraq, and now it is up to Congress, where, 35 years ago, Vietnam was lost long after our combat troops came home.

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Obama Turns Out To Be, After All, Merely a Community Organizer

By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
August 18, 2010

WASHINGTON — It is becoming apparent for all to see, that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be President of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly, he could…

The Real Road to Jewish Unity

By AVI SHAFRAN, Special to the Sun
July 23, 2010

The proposed Israeli conversion-reform legislation known as the Rotem Bill — now on hold for several months — became a sort of Rorschach test for many Jews’ fears. The bill was introduced by Yisrael Beiteinu, a nationalistic and not infrequently…

Foxes, Hounds and Liberty

By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
July 14, 2010

WASHINGTON — My friend, Andrew Roberts, has inherited the title of Historian of the English-Speaking Peoples, from Winston Churchill. Churchill wrote his four-volume history up to 1900. Roberts took up the story from there and has written his…

Outpourings of Emotion Stir City As A Central Park ‘Killer Tree’ Claims An Infant

By HENRY STERN, Special to the Sun
June 28, 2010

The tragic death of a six-month-old baby on Saturday just outside the Central Park Zoo was the result of a major limb of a honey locust tree which suddenly fell about thirty-five feet. The infant was being held by her mother when the falling branches…

Conrad Black’s Principles

By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
June 28, 2010

WASHINGTON — “If you have nothing else you have your principles,” Lady Thatcher told me when things were pretty tough at The American Spectator in the late 1990s. Sharks were circling the ship and there was blood in the water and I was getting anxious…

EDITORIALS ›

What Was Hillary Clinton Thinking?

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 29, 2010

This newspaper has been, and is, as pro-immigration as any newspaper we’ve ever encountered. We’re for the free movement of capital, the free movement of trade in goods and services, and the free movement of labor. We see efforts to curb immigration…

Beck, Palin, and Martin Luther King

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 28, 2010

The speeches were not incendiary, for the movement is not basically political. The deep feeling present came of itself from the crowd. The spontaneity of the marching, the emotional reaction to the singing, the quiet fellowship of the audience…

Woman of the Year

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 27, 2010

It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of…

California and the Constitution

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 24, 2010

One of the points these columns have been pressing is that our country’s politics are in such extremes right now that we are getting down to the bedrock of the Constitution. For an example of what we mean by that, feature the email that came in, out…

Losing the Aura of Leadership

Editorial of The New York Sun
August 21, 2010

For an example of how the White House is losing the aura of leadership feature the news from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. While President Obama is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the Associated Press is reporting that the White House wants the man…

SPORTS ›

Soccer Emerges As A Flourishing Academic Pursuit, Full Of Beauty, Bigotry, Hooliganism, Economics

By BRENDAN BERNHARD
June 15, 2010

Whether or not soccer is destined to become a genuinely popular sport in the United States, as opposed to an ingenious way to exhaust children, it is already a flourishing academic pursuit. Because of its transnational, multi-racial nature, its mix of…

Idiots' Guide to Roland Garros

By BRENDAN BERNHARD, Special to the Sun
May 25, 2010

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