Contemporary art and the plight of its public -- Jasper Johns: the first seven years of his art -- Other criteria -- Picasso's sleepwatchers -- The skulls of Picasso -- The Algerian women and Picasso at large -- Monet's Water lilies -- Gonzalez -- Recent drawings, USA -- De Koonings' woman -- Pollock's first retrospective -- Pascin -- Torsos and Raoul Hague -- Fritz Garner and Philip Guston at the Modern -- Paul Brach's pictures -- The eye is a part of the mind -- Objectivity and the shrinking self -- Rodin.