Arts and Entertainment

Languaging Languaging

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.

Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow

 Hope in 2011. Plus: The Nation Institute welcomes a new fellow.

Jan 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase

Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase

In the spring of 1942, three years after the fall of Spain to Franco’s Nationalists, a suitcase containing an archive of 4,500 negatives of photographs of the Spanish Civil W…

Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase

A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase

The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.

Jan 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman

The Year in Movies

The Year in Movies The Year in Movies

The highlights of 2010 included Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol and the twenty-fifth-anniversary rerelease of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah.
 

Jan 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov

The truly consequential choices an artist makes are never experienced as choice but as necessity.

Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Improbable, Incredible: On Afropop Improbable, Incredible: On Afropop

Defying adversities imposed by borders has been one of Afropop's key modes of transcendence.

Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams

Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo

Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo

Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.

Dec 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Lennon’s Last Interview: ‘The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility’ Lennon’s Last Interview: ‘The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility’

It was 30 years ago today.

Dec 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

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