The Year in Movies The Year in Movies
The highlights of 2010 included Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol and the twenty-fifth-anniversary rerelease of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah.
Jan 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov
The truly consequential choices an artist makes are never experienced as choice but as necessity.
Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Improbable, Incredible: On Afropop Improbable, Incredible: On Afropop
Defying adversities imposed by borders has been one of Afropop's key modes of transcendence.
Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo
Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.
Dec 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Lennon’s Last Interview: ‘The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility’ Lennon’s Last Interview: ‘The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility’
It was 30 years ago today.
Dec 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Worlds of Wonder Worlds of Wonder
The King's Speech, The Illusionist, Black Swan
Dec 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Slide Show: Fall Books 2010 Slide Show: Fall Books 2010
Touching on everything from pragmatism to arson, The Nation‘s Fall Books issue features Marilynne Robinson on William James, William Deresiewicz on Saul Bellow, Jana Prikryl…
Nov 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb's vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl
The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering
Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
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