Hollis Taggart Galleries is presenting an exhibition on the important role of collage in Abstract Expressionism, featuring works by Mary Abbott, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Natkin, Robert Motherwell, and others of note. "Collage was the quintessential…
Loretta Howard Gallery, continuing at the forefront of exhibitions of abstractionists who deserve to be known better, is currently showing paintings by Cleve Gray from the mid-1970s. "These works highlight the artist’s lifelong study of Japanese and…
As Chelsea art galleries reel from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, it may be time to trek to the Upper East Side, where the Frick Collection has just unveiled a striking Van Gogh portrait on loan from California. "Portrait of a Peasant…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 17, 2012
With apologies and thanks to William Safire: 1. At year-end, the junior senator from Massachusetts is a) Deval Patrick, who stepped down from the governor’s office to run for the post to gain Washington experience in advance of a 2016 presidential run…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 14, 2012
It will not become a fortnightly event for me to ride like the Seventh Cavalry to the assistance of News Corporation or its leader, and it is only a coincidence that I take up on what is apparently an effort at satire at the expense of Fox News. It…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
December 11, 2012
Despite all the hullabaloo in the press about the fiscal cliff and a potential recession if none of the Bush tax cuts are extended, stock markets have behaved calmly throughout this whole period. As of this writing today, the Dow is up 100 points. I’m…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 24, 2012
How can the Republican Party — or the center-right political movement in this country generally — dig itself out of the hole it’s in? That’s the question being asked after two months in which the Republican Party lost a presidential election, had its…
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By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 21, 2012
There are many lamentations, not least audibly from me, about the gridlock and general current futility of the U.S. political system, as well as the comparative mediocrity of most high officeholders, a trans-partisan problem. I was bemoaning to a…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
December 21, 2012
When you lose an election you get frustrated. When you’re sitting in a subpar 2% economy and are faced with tax hikes rather than marginal rate reductions, you get even more frustrated. When you’re staring at $47 trillion in spending over the next ten…
What are New Yorkers supposed to make of Mayor Bloomberg’s claim to be the biggest defender of the Second Amendment? The mayor made the claim in his weekly address. We read about it on the Drudge Report, which links to the New York Observer. “I don’t…
Judge Bork, who died yesterday at the age of 85, will be widely remembered as a man who, save for one of the most scandalous performances by any United States Senate, could have been a justice of the Supreme Court or even Chief Justice of the United…
President Obama faces a backlash on Capitol Hill if he nominates Senator Hagel, who formerly represented Nebraska in the upper chamber, to be secretary of defense. That’s the report from Reuters, which characterizes the backlash as “growing” and as…
There have been so many irresponsible statements by those seeking to exploit the tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut, that it’s hard to keep up with them, but for the combination of arrogance and inaccuracy one can’t beat the editorial the New York Times ran out this week under the headline “Personal Guns and the Second Amendment.”
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
August 1, 2012
Milton Friedman, the great economist, was one of a handful of intellectuals whose work forms the foundation for the modern conservative movement. He has been dead since 2006, but this week would be his centennial. He lived a long and prodigious life…
There may seem to be little left to add to descriptions of the mighty celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. But a reflection on comparative government is timely. Of the major powers, only the governments of…
The world is now somnambulating toward bone-cracking economic and strategic crises, sporadically and intermittently aware that grave outcomes impend, and generally aware that it is all very unsatisfactory, but afflicted by various versions of…
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