Arts and Entertainment

Jay-Z Re-enters Kanye-Bush Fight: Katrina Was Like Selma Jay-Z Re-enters Kanye-Bush Fight: Katrina Was Like Selma

Jay-Z backs the message, if not the rhetoric, of racial challenges to George Bush's record.

Nov 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber

No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero

No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.

Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Once Every Thousand Years… Once Every Thousand Years…

The Larry Sanders Show and the compromised administration of Obama.

Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett

Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett

A talk-show like Dick Cavett's, intelligent but not intellectual, offered television a new twist.

Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Heather Hendershot

Voids and Jackasses Voids and Jackasses

127 Hours; Jackass 3D; Hereafter; Made in Dagenham; Middletown

Nov 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology

The MSNBC host has brought the voices of working men and women to the fore and improved the discourse for the better. That's no defense for a "vile and inappropriate...

Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols

West Bank Stories

West Bank Stories West Bank Stories

Obama has paid an enormous price for pushing Israel to keep promises it has already made to freeze settlement expansion, and for what?

Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival

Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job and other films

Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…

American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.

Oct 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern

In his paintings and travels, Paul Gauguin sought a corner of himself that was still unknown.

Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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