Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
What might it mean to call a film indispensable? Perhaps not much. At base level, we'd merely be asserting that other films (maybe the vast majority) are candidates for the garba...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
American Graffiti American Graffiti
In the works that made him famous, Jasper Johns realized an ancient dream by painting things that overcame the distinction between reality and representation--numerals, for examp...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Porto Alegre Postcard Porto Alegre Postcard
This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Stankonia Stankonia
Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country's last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, ...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
In Radical Matrimony In Radical Matrimony
Suzanne Wasserman's documentary Thunder in Guyana, which airs on PBS's Independent Lens series at 10 pm on February 22, is the first in-depth look at Janet Jagan, former presiden...
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Baz Dreisinger
Constantine Constantine
About two-thirds of the speaking characters in Constantine are either demons or angels.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
My Life as a Man My Life as a Man
I've heard Argentines say that Buenos Aires is more densely populated by psychoanalysts than anyplace else in the world.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Moviegoer The Moviegoer
If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not tog...
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel