Curtain Call With Terkel Curtain Call With Terkel
Charles Kuralt, who got around a lot himself but wore out faster, once remarked: "When Studs Terkel listens, everybody talks." Not so many years ago, in fact, we asked Kuralt to ...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker
The Heat in the Kitchen The Heat in the Kitchen
He poses like a tightrope walker, though one who's unexpectedly domestic and chubby.
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Fighting the Art Bullies Fighting the Art Bullies
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner
A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness
A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Terry Tempest Williams
Bland Art in Every Pot Bland Art in Every Pot
In 1989, after several years of controversy, legal wrangling and numerous public forums, Richard Serra's sculptural installation Tilted Arc was removed from a federal plaza in Ne...
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Grant
Flag-Waving at the Whitney Flag-Waving at the Whitney
The Triumph of the New York School, a deeply ironic painting by the American artist Mark Tansey, looks at first sight like a rotogravure depiction of a military surrender that to...
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Innocents Abroad Innocents Abroad
When people label a film "great," the usual effect is to close off a discussion that ought to be opening.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Just a Cannes Job? Just a Cannes Job?
Ever since Rosetta won the top prize at this year's Cannes festival, American journalists have puzzled over the jury's decision, or written it off as mere insolence.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism
To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield