Love Is Scary
Gothic fiction came into great vogue among the English-reading public in the late 18th century, thanks to novels such as Horace Walpole’s The Castle...
Armenian Notes
“How do you know when a guy is Armenian?” asks a character in the film Author, Author! “His last name rhymes with ‘Armenian.’ ”...
On Our Honor
You can call The Souvenir “patient” or “contemplative” or “ascetic” or even just “French,” since it plays like a French film even though it’s...
The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
Keith Haring grew up in an evangelical Christian family, but his art became synonymous with the gay-rights movement that sprung up around the AIDS...
Flowers in Focus
What’s left to say about a Monet show? Everybody else has already exhausted the Monet/money puns, as well as noting how the Impressionists were...
Attend the Tale
Having made his reputation and won accolades for stinging relationship comedies such as Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim started blowing...
Art Park
It was only three weeks ago that we wrote up the Modern in this space (“Performing Pain,” May 8), but the art museum has...
Hair Trigger
Back in 1981, the playwright Dennis McIntyre happened to stop at a donut shop in Chicago on his way home when he witnessed an...
A Peculiar Passion
Movies never seem to get Emily Dickinson right, but then, we don’t exactly get her right ourselves. The 19th-century poet’s strangeness is evident to...
Performing Pain
The West Coast of the United States has been a hotbed of art ever since the end of World War II, and in the...
