Sunday's Notes

Katherine Duncan-Jones,"The rise and fall of the sonnet," TLS, 2 June, reviews Stephen Burt's and David Mikics's The Art of the Sonnet and Richard Nugent's Cynthia, edited by Angelina Lynch.

Krissah Thompson,"Conservative class on Founding Fathers' answers to current woes gains popularity," Washington Post, 5 June, looks at a movement that locates authority in the founding fathers, but denies them the respect of accuracy.

Martin Filler,"The Powerhouse of the New," NYRB, 24 June, reviews"Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity," an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art;"Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model," an exhibit at Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau;"Art to Hear: Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model," an audio CD guide; Gunta Stölzl's Gunta Stölzl: Bauhaus Master; Ulrike Müller's Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design; Nicholas Fox Weber's The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism; Philipp Oswalt, ed., Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919–2009: Controversies and Counterparts;"Kandinsky," an exhibit at Munich's Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, and Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum;"László Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective," an exhibit at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle;"Moholy: An Education of the Senses," an exhibit at Loyola University's Museum of Art in Chicago; and Renate Heyne and Floris M. Neusüss, eds., Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms.

Brad Gooch,"Maugham's Love Life," Daily Beast, 3 June, reviews Selina Hastings's The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham.

Peter Keepnews,"Culture's Ambassador," NYT, 27 May, reviews Harvey G. Cohen's Duke Ellington's America.