“Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion,” writes Jana Prikryl, “the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it.”
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For a view of what’s wrong with urban development today, look no further than the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
The transformation of the World Trade Center site was hampered to a shameful degree by the intransigent self-interest of both individuals and institutions. Although all major construction schemes face tremendous problems, the rebuilding encapsulates everything that is wrong with urban development in...
nybooks.com|来自 Martin Filler
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Salamishah Tillet on Jules Allen's 'Marching Bands,' a "stunning collection of social documentary, portraiture, and panoramic photography that takes us into the behind-the-scenes world of African-American marching bands all over the country."
In Jules Allen’s Marching Bands, a stunning collection of social documentary, portraiture, and panoramic photography, he takes us into this behind-the-scenes world of African American marching bands all over the country. The roots of historically black college marching band performance stretch back…
nybooks.com|来自 Salamishah Tillet
"Imagine leaving behind a life to which you cannot claim allegiance or affection," writes Chris Ware of George Herriman, the creator of the 'Krazy Kat' comic strip.
Krazy Kat has been described as a parable of love, a metaphor for democracy, a “surrealistic” poem. It is all of these, but so much more: it is a portrait of America, a self-portrait of George Herriman, and, I believe, the first attempt to paint the full range of human consciousness in the language…
nybooks.com|来自 Chris Ware
What caused the sudden burst of outbreaks of the measles in the US? Vaccine refusal. President Trump’s support for the anti-vaccination position "threatens to pry open and expand these pockets of resistance, sowing widespread doubt about the credibility of scientific fact," writes Daniel Smith.
Skepticism about vaccines is as old as vaccination itself. But contemporary vaccine refusal has its roots in 1998. Today, President Donald Trump is not only the most prominent and media-savvy fear-monger in the English-speaking world, but also a dedicated, unabashed, very loud purveyor of myths abou...
nybooks.com|来自 Daniel Smith
Elizabeth Drew on the first weeks of the Trump administration
When the most unpopular and least prepared president-elect in modern history took the oath of office on January 20, most of Washington, like most of the country and the world, had little idea of the turbulence and disruption that he intended to bring to the job. Nonetheless those who’d watched him c...
nybooks.com|来自 Elizabeth Drew
El Salvador is the most violent peacetime country in the world. Madeleine Schwartz reports on a town that claims to have defied this trend.
In El Salvador, gangs dictate a significant part of the economy, while the government's law-and-order strategy has failed to reduce one of the highest murder rates in the world. Turning citizens into informants, the town of San José Guayabal claims to have defied this trend, anticipating violence be...
nybooks.com|来自 Madeleine Schwartz
Garry Wills: "Milton wrote that Samson, whose strength was in his hair, considered it a God-given 'hallowed pledge / Of all my strength'—what he called 'my precious fleece.'"
What would happen to Donald Trump if he lost his hair (or what passes for it)? The first thing is that he would save a great deal of time in the creation and maintenance of such an artifact. It’s amazing what forty minutes here and forty minutes there adds up to, day by day, week by week. He would,…
nybooks.com|来自 Garry Wills
Robert Darnton writes, "The equivalent of today’s poisonous, bite-size texts and tweets can be found in most periods of history, going back to the ancients."
Fake news is hardly new. The production of fake, semi-false, and true but compromising snippets of news reached a peak in eighteenth-century London, when newspapers began to circulate among a broad public. In 1788, London had ten dailies, eight tri-weeklies, and nine weekly newspapers, and their sto...
nybooks.com|来自 Robert Darnton
“When he gets in front of any crowd, he will say whatever he thinks will make an impact at that very moment,” James Fenton writes of Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, who has compared himself to Hitler and admitted abusing synthetic opioids. He has also presided over a wave of thousands of extrajudicial killings and threatened to declare martial law.
One of Rodrigo Duterte’s chief selling points as a leader is that he doesn’t give a shit. So, when he gets in front of any crowd, he will say whatever he thinks will make an impact at that very moment, and it is striking that most of the most shocking things we have learned about Duterte have come f...
nybooks.com|来自 James Fenton
Jackson Lears reviews Stephen Kinzer’s ‘The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire,’ which “captures the tragic impact of American hubris at home and abroad.”
For decades, anti-imperial thought has been largely absent from public discourse. So has the word “imperialism.” The chief substitute for it has been “internationalism.” The rhetorical shift from imperialism to internationalism suggests a sanitizing process at work during the twentieth century, as t...
nybooks.com|来自 Jackson Lears
"President Trump’s ban on refugees is clearly racist and probably unconstitutional but it’s also just plain stupid, at least if the goal is to build a strong, safe, working nation," write Sue Halpern and Bill McKibben.
Intended to rejuvenate public sculpture in Britain, in 1972 the City Sculpture Project gave sixteen artists £1000 each to produce a site-specific sculpture.
"The main responses seem to have been indifference and barely concealed philistinism," writes Jon Day in his review of an exhibition documenting the project, now in its final week at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
"Even at its most urgent, Paul Nash’s painting seems tremulous, poised between past and future, dream and reality," writes Jenny Uglow of the exhibit now at the Tate Britain.
Within moments of entering the Tate's exhibit Paul Nash's paintings, my brisk walk slowed to a mesmerized linger as I encountered something new and strange, watching the artist make discoveries and adjustments, trying in different ways to fit his vision to dark experience and to blend his “Englishne...
nybooks.com|来自 Jenny Uglow
"Between the lines of Asghar Farhadi's 'The Salesman' is a malignant subtext about Iranian society, which, despite the uneven entry of egalitarian values, remains wedded to old-fashioned honor codes," writes Christopher de Bellaigue.
Recently shortlisted for a Foreign Language Oscar, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman is more ambitious in scope than any of his films to date. Its subject, the inviolability of women and the ways that men exercise guardianship over it, is of course a universal theme. But to my knowledge it has never bee...
nybooks.com|来自 Christopher de Bellaigue
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