Tracing Slavery’s Past Tracing Slavery’s Past
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
Mar 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Te-Ping Chen
Our Troubled Youth Our Troubled Youth
Exploring the unexpected: Chop Shop, Paranoid Park, Vantage Point.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Daring Intransigence Daring Intransigence
Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Tom Stoppard’s Schlock ‘n’ Roll Tom Stoppard’s Schlock ‘n’ Roll
When will we stop living in the '60s?
Feb 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan
The Film We Dreamed The Film We Dreamed
In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
Feb 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
An Ayler in My House An Ayler in My House
A glossy and ragged musical declaration of love.
Feb 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Cool Devastation Cool Devastation
American movie-goers finally get to see Cristian Mungiu's stunning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Feb 7, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Where of It The Where of It
The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.
Feb 5, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Gandhi’s Teachings Are Alive Gandhi’s Teachings Are Alive
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
Feb 4, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
An Unmonumental Grimace An Unmonumental Grimace
Taking stock of the new New Museum.
Jan 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky