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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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...
Native American
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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,...
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...
Movies & TV
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...
Blog-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...
Performing Arts
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...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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