Michael FriedMuch acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. | GARRETT STEWARTBookwork surveys and illustrates a stunning variety of appropriated and fabricated books alike, ranging from hacksawed discards to the giant lead folios of Anselm Kiefer. |
CAROLYN BURKELee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. | ROBERT HARIMANIn No Caption Needed, Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. |
STEVEN J. TEPPERIn the late 1990s Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. | HALL ANDERSONA staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. |
THOMAS BARTSCHERERHalf a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. | MATTHEW JESSE JACKSONThe Experimental Group takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. |
Yasmine RanaThis stunning collection presents the topical and intense plays of one of the most interesting new voices in American theater. | JOHN WILLISThe product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservationis meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. |
JACK FULLERAcross America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets like the Huffington Postthrive. | DAVE KEHRIf you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in theNew York Times, then you are already familiar with one of our nation’s premier film critics. |