They Have No Graves They Have No Graves
Catholic Innocence meets Jewish Experience after the Holocaust in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Strange Luminescence A Strange Luminescence
W.G. Sebald’s A Place in the Country.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Higher Beings Commanded Higher Beings Commanded
A quartet of shows at MoMA decoct enlightenment from the banal.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Learning From Mexico Learning From Mexico
Richard Rodriguez’s vision of racial mixing as New World destiny.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
Survivalpop Survivalpop
The desperate situation of country’s popularity.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Song and Dance Song and Dance
Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
The Brand Is My Business The Brand Is My Business
The only mystery about The Black-Eyed Blonde is when publishing derivative works became original.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Weinman
Money / Talks Money / Talks
O that common verb. Dress me in spatulas put the moon around my neck. Parting air the poet waves a hand, too much lace and I wonder if the trolley’s real, a giant upside-down flying spoon. God and hair I knew you in the Mechanical Age. Now I am someone who gets off and on trains with dads and bags everyday. Look, it’s 4:43 in the afternoon people go home. My mother wore Obsession in the eighties. I smell fire which has no hands, did you hear me? I have no horses now. Someone did not make your sweater, someone didn’t make it who loves you.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Nadelberg
In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit
E.L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Sculpting With Color Sculpting With Color
Ed Clark and Lynda Benglis are still making art on a grand scale.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky