Arts and Entertainment

The Abstract Impressionist The Abstract Impressionist

I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic g...

Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Second Comings Second Comings

To the fleet of symbolic vehicles currently cruising the screen--their number includes the "Pussy Wagon" that Uma Thurman (in Kill Bill) coldly claims as her own--we may now add ...

Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’ The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’

Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?

Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Ears Wide Open Ears Wide Open

It's a cliché to say that an artist draws his power from his contradictions, but the lives of the great composers provide easy grist for the mill.

Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Platt

Art Therapy Art Therapy

While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived--barely--a head-on collision with another car.

Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

A Documentary Coup A Documentary Coup

The lights go down in the courtroom, a 16-millimeter projector shoots out its beam, and into the trial blazes evidence of an unprecedented nature: not a report of criminal even...

Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Diaghilev in Perm Diaghilev in Perm

Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long off-limits to foreigners.

Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola

Oy Gay! Oy Gay!

Without baring flesh, exchanging fluids or even shedding blood, Will & Grace has become the craftiest, if not the most radical, show in the history of network television--t...

Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik

Willie Nelson at 70 Willie Nelson at 70

On April 30, Willie Nelson turned 70, celebrating with the release of his latest greatest-hits collection.

Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Avengers The Avengers

Ghosts are notorious for getting stuck in time. Having lost track of the ongoing world, they will revisit certain hours as obsessively as they haunt a fatal spot.

Oct 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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