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The task of a critic has to do with the nature of the knowledge we call art.

The feel-good portrayal of the agency in 'Argo' glosses over its role in previously overthrowing Iran's democratically elected leader.

The Sundance-to-Oscar pipeline has been great for independent film directors—at least the male ones.

Yoko’s 80th birthday is a day to celebrate her art, music and activism.

Two brilliant nominees, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, along with other recent documentaries, have deepened our understanding of the conflict.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night