Pas de Deux, en Masse Pas de Deux, en Masse
A cluster of concepts that, before the seventies, had together formed the received idea of art and artists came under intense criticism in that decade.
Jun 10, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Greek Bearing Gifts A Greek Bearing Gifts
Before I ask you to see Eternity and a Day, I'd better explain something about its director and co-screenwriter, Theo Angelopoulos.
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Episode I–The Phantom Menace Episode I–The Phantom Menace
Not only now but every week, I am reminded at two-minute intervals of the influence of Star Wars.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Of Time and the Artist Of Time and the Artist
One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Nowhere Man, Please Listen Nowhere Man, Please Listen
On April Fool's Day 1989, Leonid Loktev changed without warning into another person.
May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Memory Hotel (It’s Haunted) Memory Hotel (It’s Haunted)
Thanks to the genius of millions, who over the generations have created our language, we may speak of the most uncanny experience in terms that suit the most common.
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Waits: Guthrie’s Heir? Waits: Guthrie’s Heir?
Tom Waits is an imaginary hobo. He cruises the oddball corners of American pop culture, collecting the deft and moving and loopy short takes he sees and imagines there.
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Global Indigestion Global Indigestion
I coined the term "global brunch" several years ago after seeing a film of the Stravinsky-Cocteau Oedipus Rex as staged by Julie Taymor.
Apr 29, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Way of All Flesh The Way of All Flesh
Hark! The squeal of the two-headed amphibian. Mating season must have begun.
Apr 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Accountant of Death Accountant of Death
After we admit that all historical circumstances are specific and all sufferings absolute--that Serbian "police" are not Nazis and ethnic Albanians not Jews (and NATO forces can...
Apr 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans