No, Mike Nichols wasn’t a great director, but he did touch greatness once
““The Graduate” is the most-directed movie Nichols ever made, and, naturally enough, it’s the one that earned him an Academy Award for Best Director
An ode to Ellis Island, whose dingy reality contradicted its majestic dreams
Perec captures the horrors of Ellis Island where a militaristic, racist nation sorted human beings into groups of desirables and undesirables
How a visionary movie director predicted the dire state of culture in 2020
Robert Hughes was, as usual, right when he said, “Most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power.
Bellow and Nabokov are gone; their delightfully smug offspring lives on
Martin Amis’ autobiographical novel “Inside Story” pays tribute to the author’s literary fathers — Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Vladimir Nabokov.
Sol LeWitt: The conceptual artist who made an app of himself
The Sol LeWitt App, created by the artist’s estate and Microsoft, demonstrates the cozy relationship between big tech and conceptual art.
Now 90, Frederick Wiseman is as vital and relevant as ever
If there were a Nobel Prize for documentary filmmaking, Wiseman would have won a long time ago.
Weird, shapeless, claustrophobic, disjointed, solipsistic — the newest film from guess who?
Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is nowhere near his best — yet his storytelling is better than ever. No, that’s not a paradox.
The one thing critics, directors and film nerds get wrong about Stanley Kubrick
It’s hard to think of another filmmaker with such a lofty reputation and such a childish sense of humor.
How Woodstock revolutionized art — a story that has nothing to do with a music festival
50 years ago, Philip Roth, Philip Guston and Bob Dylan moved to Woodstock and changed the face of American art.
The extremely problematic and incredibly harsh impact of Coronavirus on art
The epidemic has robbed the world of countless artworks. And it has only just begun.