The Speed of Light in the Golden West
Muybridge is not yet a household name, but given Rebecca Solnit’s excellent study (2003) along with the rich catalog for that art show, and now this...
Muybridge is not yet a household name, but given Rebecca Solnit’s excellent study (2003) along with the rich catalog for that art show, and now this...
A NEW TESTAMENT from Victor Navasky is a notable event. Former editor and publisher of The Nation, he is the Delacorte professor of journalism at...
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. &mdash...
THE PHRASE "AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM" has a long, convoluted, and too often tortured track record. The Founding Fathers surely believed in it...
All Thomas Nast images courtesy of the University of North Carolina PressFrom Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons San Francisco...
WHEN TWO OF THE GREATEST artistic talents of all time, living in the same urban hothouse, are enticed into intense rivalry by leaders and patrons of...
MAX ERNST, A GERMAN SURREALIST and sometime husband of Peggy Guggenheim (the famously promiscuous art dealer), once overturned a fully loaded ashtray...
IN 1943-45 HOWARD ZINN SERVED as bombardier for a U.S. Air Force B-17. Initially, just 21 years old in the service, he found himself in transit to...
GORE VIDAL IS OFTEN TOUTED, particularly for this slight collection of four interviews, as the best conversationalist since Oscar Wilde. Let&rsquo...