By Hilton Kramer 12/01/03 12:00am

Old Manet and Sea: The First Modernist

The French artist Édouard Manet (1832-83) is often said to have been the first modernist painter-the father, as it were, of Impressionism and the great succession of avant-garde movements that followed in its wake. In fact, there’s just enough truth in the claim to render it plausible, even at this distance in time. But it Read More

By Anne Roiphe 8/17/98 12:00am

In New England, Fading Summer, Solemn Ghosts

Here I am at Truro down near the tip of Cape Cod. The ocean waves are smaller than the ones we are accustomed to. But the dunes are far higher and suggest the endlessly reaching, not-so-friendly nature of the sea. The little girls in their tropical-bird, orange-and-lime-colored bathing suits dash to and from the water’s Read More