Tag: Visual Art

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

Comic books can document the horrors of war better than photos.

Boston’s concrete modernist architecture is unsurpassed and widely despised.

In Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, the crossroads of despair and integrity.

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

“Dear Sir, I don’t like the way you crossed me out.”

University art museums are cheap. They teach. They take risks.

Shigeru Ban's humanitarianism is unquestioned, but are his designs too humble to warrant architecture's most coveted prize?

OneTouch travels the African continent, showcasing its natural beauty.

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

Remembering Ficre Ghebreyesus.

Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love

The Many Partners of Fred Astaire.

What problems arise when governments use art as a substitute for political engagement?

The story behind the municipal bankruptcy of Stockton, CA, illustrated.

John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

It’s strange to think of Katchor’s work as lifelike, but there it is. Its lifelikeness is partly a function of the felt possibility of ongoing randomness inherent in the comic-strip mode.

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.