Works of art to be completed by the audience…

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

“We ought to go into rehab, but we’re too stoned to care.”

High modernist experi­ments ex­ecuted at pulp­smith rates.

A practical­minded brand of utopian modernism…

A brilliant, principled actress typecast as a ditz or naïf.

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

Andre Bazin wrote “he directs facts” — but did he?

“I decided to face reality by writing lyrics.”

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.

His bulk and blokeishness made him the perfect frontman for Madness.

His pursuit of formal balance hardly numbed him to racial concerns.

For Beckett, joking — like farting — is a futile but necessary stay against death and time.

His stylistic mastery renders all encomia to his “voice” ridiculous.

G.P.’s writing is both ludic and lucid, and anything but inhuman.

Vs. the psych­olo­gizing and soft-soap liberal­ism of “white ele­phant art”

Given his much-imper­son­ated rasp and gift for Menckenesque quips (“Horse sense is…

Recalling SUSAN SONTAG (1933-2004) as “a leading public intellectual” — a category…

Interviews with TODD HAYNES (born 1961) are well-stocked with the film-studies and…

Even if Brooklyn-born JEAN­MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-88) had never taken brush (or spraycan)…

What musician has been more unfairly burdened with expectations set by his…

“St. Louis Blues” may be “the jazzman’s Hamlet,” as one critic has…

The last man standing of Sun Records’ early roster has been known…

Like Bea Arthur, Pearl Bailey, and Redd Foxx, the televisual omnipresence of…