Permalancers, Unite! Permalancers, Unite!
Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Anya Kamenetz
Tilted Ash Tilted Ash
A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland
The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern
Bonfire of the Disney Princesses Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.
Dec 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Ehrenreich
The Madman and the Poet The Madman and the Poet
In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
A Kind of Waiting Always A Kind of Waiting Always
A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Chaos, Clocks, Juxtapositions Chaos, Clocks, Juxtapositions
With the release of the Dylan pastiche I'm Not There, Todd Haynes revises our cultural memory by adjusting familiar clichés.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kent Jones
TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee
"She is our elder and our sister and our daughter. We celebrate her as we celebrate the moon: our guide through the dark, dark night."
Dec 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Walter Mosley
Dark Rooms Dark Rooms
Susie Linfield | The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield
Pointe Work Pointe Work
Nureyev: The Life brings new focus to an iconic figure of modern ballet.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss