Folk’s Missing Link Folk’s Missing Link
I was in high school in the 1960s when I first saw Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, one of those little cellar clubs that used to line a Greenwich Village that now lives in myth an...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Oscar Opens the Door Oscar Opens the Door
As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger tha...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eric Dyson
Have Car, Will Travel Have Car, Will Travel
If you're in the mood to see great acting, I recommend that you watch Aurélien Recoing get caught in a lie in Laurent Cantet's Time Out. As Vincent, a French management con...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It
Black filmmakers seize the moment.
Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Artemisia and the Elders Artemisia and the Elders
In the vestibule of the superb exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (until May 12), the organizers have installed a large colore...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!
Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz
‘Monsoon’ Season ‘Monsoon’ Season
Why, asked my friends and my baffled wife. Why, piped my son. Even the movie critics sitting next to me wanted to know: What perversity drove me to see Hart's War and Rollerball?...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Artists Strike a Chord Artists Strike a Chord
Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com).
Feb 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple