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The author’s aim is to render William Blake’s complex vision understandable to novices. It is a lucid effort, though the book presents a disappointingly conventional overview of the artist’s achievement.
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“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.
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Americans is a winningly-programmed, strongly-realized effort.
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Jaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.
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I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.
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Summer of Soul is two hours of rapturous entertainment and pointed political commentary — neither of which has gone out of style 52 years later.
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The Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week — here’s a selection of the most promising documentaries on view.
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To my ears, veteran guitarist John McLaughlin is both a jazz and a rock player, and more besides.
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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Bo Burnham deserves kudos for calling himself out on his own bullshit. But that doesn’t absolve him of seriously confronting the problem of excessive self-consciousness, especially nowadays.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025