Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Urban Legend Urban Legend
Here's our man, starring in a movie about himself.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Untimely Meditations Untimely Meditations
Beethoven has been particularly fortunate in his recent critics and biographers.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said
Space Is the Place Space Is the Place
I recently returned to dingy England after a road trip in America, where, as usual, I failed to take any photographs.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Geoff Dyer
Creative Destruction Creative Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence
If you've seen Pleasantville--the story of teenagers who are magically transported from 1990s reality into 1950s television--you know that its writer-director, Gary Ross, has a...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Paint It Black Paint It Black
If the idea of monochrome painting occurred to anyone before the twentieth century, it would have been understood as a picture of a monochrome reality, and probably taken as a ...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Soul Man Soul Man
Pop music's eternal appeal can be found in one instance out of many: "This Magic Moment," a 1960 song by The Drifters.
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White