Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
A Screenplay Jihadists will Hate and Civilized People will Love
Daniel Wahl December 30, 2014
Set in Chicago during the holiday season, Quent Cordair's screenplay Mujahid involves a conflict between Husam, a young Muslim man who takes Islam seriously, and his younger brother Jasim. The conflict escalates after Husam is handed a heavy bag by a bearded man and gets on a bus heading downtown.
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Bergdorf Goodman’s Christmas Windows Celebrate Art and Capitalism
Joseph Kellard December 17, 2014
The extravagant window displays at Bergdorf Goodman department store on New York’s Fifth Avenue are a popular draw this time of year, and for good reason. These dazzling arrangements entice pedestrians into the store and inspire crowds to stop, snap photos, and marvel. The artful windows celebrate commerce, wealth, and high-end goods.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Chef
Ari Armstrong November 20, 2014
Ari Armstrong reviews Chef, written and directed by Jon Favreau.
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Richard Berenholtz on Photographing the Rise of 432 Park Avenue
Joseph Kellard October 4, 2014
Renowned photographer Richard Berenholtz has been commissioned to document the construction of 432 Park Avenue, a building that, at nearly 1,400 feet will be the tallest residential tower in New York and the Western Hemisphere. Joseph Kellard recently talked with Berenholtz about his work on 432 Park, Manhattan’s ever-changing skyline, and his fascination with the construction process.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: Star Trek: First Contact
Ari Armstrong August 20, 2014
Star Trek: First Contact, directed by Jonathan Frakes. Written By Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, And Ronald D. Moore. Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates Mcfadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, And Alice Krige. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, 1996. Rated PG-13 for some sci-fi…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Edge of Tomorrow
Ari Armstrong August 20, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow, directed by Doug Liman. Written by Christopher Mcquarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, and Brendan Gleeson. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Ari Armstrong August 20, 2014
The Martian, by Andy Weir. New York: Crown, 2014. 384 pp. $24 (hardcover). Reviewed by Ari Armstrong Imagine you’re on a mission on Mars. Your space suit, not to mention your body, was punctured by an antenna blown loose by a raging sandstorm. Luckily, although the blow knocked you unconscious,…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Rape of the Masters, by Roger Kimball
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2014
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, by Roger Kimball. New York: Encounter Books, 2005. 200 pp. $17.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Daniel Wahl Roger Kimball begins The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by asking why we teach and study art history. “It is…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Dictionary of Human Form, by Ted Seth Jacobs
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2014
The Dictionary of Human Form, by Ted Seth Jacobs. Santa Fe: Mariposa Press, 2011. 819 pp. $150. Reviewed by Daniel Wahl Ted Seth Jacobs painted The Open Window—one of the most beautiful paintings of the twentieth century. He taught Jacob Collins and Tony Ryder—two of the realist movement’s most influential…
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Donna Hassler on the Sculptures of Daniel Chester French
Joseph Kellard August 20, 2014
Joseph Kellard interviews Donna Hassler about the works of Daniel Chester French, the great American artist perhaps best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln housed at the Lincoln Memorial. Ms. Hassler is executive director of Chesterwood, which was French's summer home and studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and which is now a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.