Nation Topics - Clement Greenberg | The Nation

Dwight Macdonald’s panic about Midcult now seems less prescient than misplaced.

MoMA’s de Kooning retrospective.

The brilliant revelations and transformations of Dorothea Tanning.

Jack Tworkov's writings wrestle with the figures of Abstract Expressionism and his own lost illusions.

Richard Lingeman remembers Robert Bendiner, John Nichols laments Roland Burris, William Greider takes heart at the appointment of union man Ron Bloom to Obama's economics team.

Philip Guston at the Morgan Library.

A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.

The staged images in Jeff Wall's photographs mirror the fictional glamour of film stills and formal painting.

Marden and Manet at MoMA.

Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.