By Alexandra Peers 6/30/10 9:30pm

Culture Wars

The Met: Picasso Outdraws A-Rod, Elvis

The murmur you hear wafting down from Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street is the sound of genteel gloating. The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released its attendance figures for the fiscal year and, at 5.24 million, the total is their highest since 2001, when terrorism dented tourism to New York City. Better yet, the number Read More

By Hilton Kramer 4/29/02 12:00am

Epic Tapestries Blow Modern Mind At Metropolitan

The modern mind has tended to balk at art on an epic scale. We simply are not used to it; it is alien to our entire outlook on art and life. Generally speaking, we have preferred the small to the large-the easel picture rather than the mural, the short lyric rather than the lengthy narrative Read More