Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him
As part of a nationwide festival of tributes to Pete Seeger in 2005, Studs Terkel offered this essay on the life and times of an American balladeer.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Studs Terkel
Flyboy in the Buttermilk Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Basquiat in Brooklyn.
Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Counterfeiter The Counterfeiter
As celluloid guinea pig for the American left, I am perfectly willing to report on the effects of exposure to this month's pop hit, Sin City.
Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Tangled Up in Bob Tangled Up in Bob
In or around 1965, human nature changed.
Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
Gangs of Shanghai Gangs of Shanghai
The scene is Shanghai, or Busby Berkeley's dream of it: a Chinese city of the 1930s, teeming on the outskirts with rickety tenement compounds, bustling in its business district...
Mar 31, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Quartet for the End of Time Quartet for the End of Time
When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist's first major-label record, for Columbia.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
It’s Easter: He Is Recut It’s Easter: He Is Recut
No flaying below the belt: That's the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson's biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter ...
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Tipsy Turvy Tipsy Turvy
Like a melodrama or a political tract--genres it sometimes resembles, in an honorable way--Jonathan Nossiter's documentary Mondovino has a villain you can hiss at.
Mar 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Finding Neverland Finding Neverland
At this writing, the first prosecution witnesses have begun testimony in the case of People v. Michael Joe Jackson.
Mar 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jody Rosen
In the Park With Christo In the Park With Christo
From everywhere people flocked to New York City to experience the extraordinary installation in Central Park by the environmental artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude.
Mar 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith