Although the term “surrealism” often conjures perplexing visual imagery — Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks, René Magritte’s raining men, Frida Kahlo’s antlered head atop The Wounded Deer — the genre ...

Great movie actors sometimes become entombed in their screen images. But in 1962’s “Mamma Roma”–a neglected classic only now receiving its American release–the quintessential Italian star Anna Magnani ...

When President Vincent Auriol set out last week to open Paris’ big annual art show, the Salon d’Automne, he had no reason to look for any excitement. Even the salon officials admitted that the show, ...

Not long ago, a group of young artists rooted in realism worked virtually unnoticed in their studios, scattered across the Southern California landscape. Now they emerge as part of a movement that ...

The American war on terror and the invasion of Iraq remain spectacular developments in the history of international relations. This article probes the explanatory ...

The original movie location, beloved by the makers of primitive actualités and slapstick comedians alike, Coney Island was never more lovingly depicted than in Morris Engel’s 1953 Little Fugitive—the ...

Two of New York’s most respected film critics had a bit of an online altercation over the weekend, with The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody lashing out on The New York Times‘ A.O. Scott and his extensive ...