Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 31 January 2016


 
New on nybooks.com: A “B-opera” at the Met, a closer look at the Clintons’ powerful donor machine, and an exhibition of film and photography from the early Soviet years.
Sponsored by Dædalus
 

Bizet Wins at the Met
Geoffrey O’Brien

An opera about passion and friendship and the perils of superstitious belief
 
 

The Clinton System
Simon Head

Few have been as adept as the Clintons at exploiting big-money politics
 

Revolution from Another Angle
Jamie Gambrell

Photography, film, and the work of artists in the early Soviet state
 
 

NYR Daily
The 2016 Campaign

The Sanders Revolt
Simon Head

The New Politics of Frustration
Elizabeth Drew

Sticking to Our Guns
Charles Simic

 

Calendar

 

‘The American Dreamer’

A rarely shown 1971 portrait of Dennis Hopper (Los Angeles)
 

Changing of the Guard

The new season at museums and galleries in London
 

‘Picasso Sculpture’

MoMA has pulled out all the stops in its show of the artist’s work in three dimensions