Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80 Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80
Yoko’s 80th birthday is a day to celebrate her art, music and activism.
Feb 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
A Night at the Oscars for Israel-Palestine A Night at the Oscars for Israel-Palestine
Two brilliant nominees, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, along with other recent documentaries, have deepened our understanding of the conflict.
Feb 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
At War With Art At War With Art
The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James W. Loewen
A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson
On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art? Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?
MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Hollywood Ending? Hollywood Ending?
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Auerbach
In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Stalker Stalker
For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb