Matisse, Maillol and One Ebullient Evening: Inside MoMA’s 2024 Party in the Garden Arguably a highlight of the spring museum party season, MoMA’s annual Party in the Garden tends to attract an eclectic crowd. By Christa Terry
Food Fight at the PEN Gala: I’m With Charlie In a heroic show of defiance, several writers decline to appear in a room with editors of Charlie Hebdo because the satirical magazine made jokes about those who must not be joked about. By Jesse Kornbluth
‘How Real People Think’: Reality in Fiction and the Question of How to Read Frederick Seidel, in an essay on Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers in the latest New York Review of Books, makes that By Jesse Barron
Where Do We Go From Here?: Critics Lament the State of Art, but Things Are Looking Up in New Books By Andrew Russeth