Salmagundi No. 139-140 / Summer – Fall 2003 Table of Contents  Guest EditorialWhat Is Happening in America by Eliot Weinberger Columns Letter from Paris by Tzvetan Todorov The Art Scene by Charrles Molesworth A Micro-Drama To Have Been by Claudio Magris Personal Essay My Suicides by Merrill Joan Gerber Poems Four Poems by Deborah Digges Four Poems by Jane Shore Scales by C. Dale Young The Rhubarb King by Sharon Chmielarz Walden by Franz Wright Old Songs by Kevin Murray Pictures by Frances Richey Books in Review Hitler’s Vienna by George Steiner Of Snobs and Snobbery by Barbara Moore It All Depends on How You Feel by Larry D Nachman Martin Amis’ Stalin by Myles Weber Is This an Age of Museums? Session I: Lecture—The Museum As Will-to-Power by Arthur Danto Session I: Panel Discussion with Michael Fried, David Ross, Arthur Danto and others Session II: Mapping and Technology with Steve Dietz, Mel Ziegler, Denis Wood, Arthur Danto and others Session III: Lecture—Talking About Fakes by Rochelle Gurstein Session III: Panel Discussion with Michael Fried, David Ross Session IV: Susan Sontag and Philip Fisher—A Conversation Session V: Lecture—Museum Distraction In A Culture of Engulfment by Philip Fisher Session V: Panel Discussion with Arthur Danto, Philip Fisher, Susan Sontag, Michael Fried, Steve Dietz, and others |