Presumed Innocent Presumed Innocent
Unlike news reports, theater isn't expected to stick to the facts. By nature, the form is duplicitous, built on a sandy foundation of make-believe and pretense.
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Picking Up the Pieces Picking Up the Pieces
Brian Wilson began recording his masterpiece, Smile, in 1966; the project collapsed a year later, unfinished.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Douglas Wolk
Rhythm Nation Rhythm Nation
Since Fidel Castro's brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ann Louise Bardach
Springsteen for Change Springsteen for Change
A culture war's going on. The 2004 election does not merely pit red states against blue states; it places the cultural community against the Bush establishment.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Signs of Our Times Signs of Our Times
Under the Radar magazine commodifies dissent--in a good way.
Oct 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
iCinema iCinema
Fussing repetitively with a lock of blond hair, nervously flashing an incomplete set of front teeth, the figure on screen begins to cough up her "testimony" in the accents of a S...
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Before you place a bid on that original Jeff Koons ceramic Puppy vase, you might want to take a peek at Donald Kuspit's The End of Art.
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Habiba Alcindor
Styles of Radical Will Styles of Radical Will
One of South America's most brilliantly talented filmmakers has made a political road movie: the story of a young man who sets out on a journey of discovery and self-discovery th...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Tribe Called Quest A Tribe Called Quest
Walking through the retrospective exhibition of Lee Bontecou, on view at MoMA-Queens, is uncannily like visiting an out-of-the-way museum of natural history, as if her entire wor...
Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Ashes of Time Ashes of Time
It was the perfect setup for an op-ed article: the release, between the Democratic and Republican conventions, of Alien vs.
Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans