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.
Why Christo didn’t matter — and why that matters
Christo, who passed away last month at the age of 84, had talent in abundance but none for the visual arts.
Why Mort Drucker mattered
If Andy Warhol was a great artist, so was Mort Drucker, the MAD Magazine cartoonist who died last month at the age of 91.
In a masterful novel of fascism, harrowing lessons for today
Walter Kempowski’s “Marrow and Bone” offers echoes of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell.