We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It
Black filmmakers seize the moment.
Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Artemisia and the Elders Artemisia and the Elders
In the vestibule of the superb exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (until May 12), the organizers have installed a large colore...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!
Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz
‘Monsoon’ Season ‘Monsoon’ Season
Why, asked my friends and my baffled wife. Why, piped my son. Even the movie critics sitting next to me wanted to know: What perversity drove me to see Hart's War and Rollerball?...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Artists Strike a Chord Artists Strike a Chord
Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com).
Feb 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
Seeking ‘Convulsive Beauty’ Seeking ‘Convulsive Beauty’
The legendary Surrealist exhibitions of the late 1930s and early 1940s were Surrealist in spirit and secondarily Surrealist in content. In 1942, for example, an exhibition called...
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Protesting Black Hawk Down Protesting Black Hawk Down
It's one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune
A Crowbar to the Face A Crowbar to the Face
Frederick Wiseman has spent a lifetime piecing together sounds and images captured from the daily flow.
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans