The Screaming Pope

Yes John Updike played it, golf that is and the likes of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama play golf, though Hillary Clinton would not be able t...

Austrians trying to speak English are gris for the comic mill. There are Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famed malapropisms and Sasha Baron Cohen’s ...

Lars von Trier is a party pooper. Dunderheads don’t you get it? The whole performance at Cannes was a set up. It’s  Melancholia played righ...

Self-obliteration is one of the themes of the Yayoi Kusama  exhibit at the Pompidou . But the expression should not be confused spiritual no...

Leurs tresors ont une ame , “their treasures have a soul,” is the title of the show about the Maori at the musee du quai Branly . It’s reass...

The Steins, Leo, Gertrude, Sarah and Michael were patrons not investors and in that regard, like their counterparts the lesser known   Cone ...

Dead Birds , the first of series of films by Robert Gardner the artist/ethnographer currently being shown at Film Forum , concerns the belli...