Salvador Memories Salvador Memories
An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Opt...
Oct 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
The Young and the Damned The Young and the Damned
Paradise Now explores the bond among suicide bombers; The Squid and the Whale brings two monstrously large characters to human scale and The President's Last Bang is nastily effici...
Oct 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
How Art Can Save Your Life How Art Can Save Your Life
Michael Kimmelman's The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is a celebration of the intersection between art and life and the random genius of the unexpected.
Oct 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Hal Foster
Over My Dead Body Over My Dead Body
New biographies of Benito Mussolini and Marilyn Monroe contemplate exploitation of the body--in life and after death.
Oct 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Mooallem
Lessons of Darkness Lessons of Darkness
A History of Violence examines one man's attempt to protect his family from the murderers drifting into his small Indiana town. Good Night, and Good Luck presents a portrait of Sen...
Oct 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Blacklist=Blackmarket Blacklist=Blackmarket
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Oct 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Dalton Trumbo
25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Sep 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
Mute Point Mute Point
The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Anywhere But Here Anywhere But Here
Tim Burton enlivens the dark and gloomy life of corpses and aristocrats in Corpse Bride; Occupation: Dreamland offers an unsentimental view of Iraqi soldiers.
Sep 22, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Search of Sam Cooke In Search of Sam Cooke
A womanizing gospel king and black-pride pop star, Sam Cooke led a short life filled with contradiction.
Sep 22, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Christgau