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Stoning the Refrigerator (1996), by Jimmie Durham
The Stone Dies Away Also: On Jimmie Durham (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Does a sculptor destroy things or merely change them?

Barry Schwabsky
Tiny Gold Dress (Poems, Books and the Arts)
John Godfrey
Karl Benjamin
Remembering Karl Benjamin (Lived History, Fine Art)

Benjamin was greatly admired for his serious and dedicated approach to painting, his investment in those he chose to mentor and for being a truly kind soul.

The Nation
From 'The Split' (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Susan Wheeler
Daylight Answers: On 'The Dark Knight Rises' (Film, Books and the Arts)

A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.

Stuart Klawans
Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theatre
Living With Disjunction: Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13 (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Steeped in anthropology and art history, this summer’s big shows are occasions for talk instead of exploring art that reaches the unsaid.

Barry Schwabsky
http://www.thenation.com/article/169060/shelf-life
Shelf Life (Film, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground; John Cassavetes’s Too Late Blues

Akiva Gottlieb
Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream (Drug War and Drug Policy, Television)

The “most dangerous show on television” highlights our shredded social contract.

Max Rivlin-Nadler
Flow Dynamics (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Elizabeth Arnold
Of Time and Intensity (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Peter Cole

Blogs

Crazy, Stupid, Republicans
Eric Alterman

Eric has never written for US News, and he is frustrated with T-Mobile.

August 12, 2011
Top Ten Songs About Nuclear War
Peter Rothberg

Fear of nuclear apocalypse has provided serious creative juice for songwriters and musicians of all genres.

August 5, 2011
Special Schadenfreude Edition...
Eric Alterman

Eric reviews Paul McCartney, Raul Malo and Elvis Costello, and Reed sees the ghost of the Republican party's past.

July 21, 2011
NxtGen: Stuff the Cuts
Peter Rothberg

For those concerned that there's no good protest music out there, the English hip-hop group NxtGen is using rap to take searing aim at the British government’s austerity budget.

June 29, 2011
Jimmy Cliff Sings for Peace in Afghanistan
Peter Rothberg

An aging but still spry Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican reggae master, rocked the Glastonbury Festival with a searing version of one of his biggest hits re-tooled as a cry for peace in Afghanistan.

June 27, 2011
Remembering Clarence Clemons—Early Days With 'The Big Man'
Greg Mitchell

Clarence Clemons could talk, both musically and verbally. 

June 18, 2011
Hot New Film Asks: Is the 'New York Times' Worth Saving?
Greg Mitchell

Andrew Rossi's documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times explores what happens when old media and new media collide.

June 14, 2011
Film About Bobby Fischer—Chess Champ, Fugitive, Anti-Semite—Comes to HBO Next Week
Greg Mitchell

Long before he won the title of chess champion of the world—and then became a fugitive, a raving anti-Semite and anti-American, and secluded in Iceland—Bobby Fischer was a part of my childhood.

May 31, 2011
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
Peter Rothberg

Gil Scott-Heron's political legacy was vast and his connections to social movements deep.

May 28, 2011
Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, a Crude Word, a Classy Apology
John Nichols

It was a bad week for a good man, but the MSNBC host will be back to give voice to working men and women.

May 26, 2011