Art: Emblems of a Lost Tradition

In New York City, superb drawings from the Albertina collection

There are some shows at which the critic can only stand and point, feeling superfluous. One of these is entering the last month of its run at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City: "Old Master Drawings from the Albertina." It has already been seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and on May 26 its contents return to their ancestral roost in Vienna, unlikely ever to be seen again on this side of the Atlantic.

Intimate in scale and address, consisting of a mere 75 items (augmented by 14 of the Morgan Library's own drawings), this is...

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