Arts and Entertainment

Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play

Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora

Renoir All Over Again Renoir All Over Again

Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you to p...

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack

The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait

It's rude of me to speak of Todd Haynes's new picture as if it were a symptom; but then, he's the one who's always consulting doctors.

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique

Judy Chicago

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Rockin’ in the Free World Rockin’ in the Free World

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Love, Sandler Style Love, Sandler Style

Although I'm mad for Paul Thomas Anderson's new picture, Punch-Drunk Love, I also suspect it's made me a little crazy.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Mr. Feiffer Regrets Mr. Feiffer Regrets

Cartoonist Jules Feiffer dropped a pinpoint protest on First Lady Laura Bush's National Book Festival on October 12 in Washington.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jules Feiffer

Jerusalem Calling Jerusalem Calling

On his new album, country-rocker Steve Earle lets politics infuse his music.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade

The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

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