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Book Review: “In Memory of Memory” — Riven Recollections

March 31, 2021
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It is the loss of memories and the meaning of memory that dominate, generating speculations that draw the reader into and through Maria Stepanova’s argument and interpretations.

Book Review: “Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” — Sort of a Shaman

June 22, 2023
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Betye Saar’s assemblages and travel sketchbooks are rich in references and symbols; they are mysterious and introspective, more spiritual than political.

Film Review: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”—The Rise and Fall of the National Lampoon

October 12, 2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.

Book Review: “The New Leviathans” — No Way Out?

November 7, 2023
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John Gray’s pessimism is a direct descendant of the cultural pessimism preached by Oswald Spengler, whose best-seller, “The Decline of the West,” played a major role in the growth of fascism in the 1920s and ’30s.

Arts Commentary: Separating the Maker from the Made, the Doer from the Doing

January 20, 2022
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It is natural to believe that there is (or should be) a close connection between the personality and the work.

Theater Review: Bravo for “American Moor”

August 10, 2017
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American Moor is a terrific meditation on Othello and race.

Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism

May 3, 2022
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While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Halston” — Gifted, Greedy, and Gregarious

June 3, 2021
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There are stunning scenes full of energy and visual beauty, but Halston left me feeling somewhat cold.

Theater Review: URT’s “Matchless” & “The Happy Prince” — Enchanting Worlds

December 6, 2016
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The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.

Book Review: The Greatest Horror Novel of the 20th Century

March 16, 2011
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German author Ernst Weiss’s nightmarish vision of science gone mad in his 1931 novel Georg Letham is not rote Freudian; it is firmly in the social critique/ apocalyptic Darwinian mode.

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