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
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
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
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