Art
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
Art
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
July 27, 2025Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Coppélia
July 27, 2025This production is, in a word — glorious! The lush backgrounds, from the opening wisteria-covered village...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dragon Age 2
July 26, 2025Do you like fantasy? As in the elves and dwarves and sword and sorcery ilk? No?...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
July 26, 2025Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
Dance
Review: Buglisi Dance Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company
July 23, 2025The dancers of Buglisi Dance Theatre are perhaps the chief reason to see this company, which...
Russia
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Luck o’ the Irish!
July 23, 2025What? St. Patrick’s Day in America has become a day of drunken celebration–green beer, plastic hats,...
Blog-Dance
5 Questions with San Francisco Ballet Dancer Nicole Ciapponi
July 23, 2025My favorite ballet to work this season (so far) was the William Forsythe The Vertiginous Thrill...
Dance
ROYAL DANISH BALLET: Video Chat with Nikolaj Hübbe and Live Stream Preview of 2011 U.S. Tour
July 23, 2025One of the most anticipated events of the late spring dance season is the return of...
Art
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
July 23, 2025A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Theatre
Theater Review: Rude Mechs Performs The Method Gun
July 23, 2025The play documents "the search" for Stella Burden, a mysterious acting teacher from the 70s, who...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
July 23, 2025With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
Movies
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood
July 23, 2025Screenwriter David Johnson, whose one prior writing credit was the hilariously mind-boggling Orphan (2009), penned a...
Dance
5 Questions with Choreographer David Herrera
July 23, 2025I knew that for American Layercake it was imperative to find an assistant director who came...
Video Games
Fistful of Fillibuster: Director’s Chair Envy
July 23, 2025So then why is it that so often in games, the developers that make them decide...
Movies
Movie Review: Rango
July 23, 2025Every scale on Rango’s chartreuse face, every strand of fur on the tiny desert pigs, each...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
July 22, 2025There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
July 22, 2025At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
Art
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
July 22, 2025“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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