The Tall Man  (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director Tony Krawitz, Australia, 2011. You could call Palm Island the Land of Enchantment, although the slogan isn’t on the Queensland license plate. The lagoon on the Great …

The Island President (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director: Jon Shenk, USA, 2011, 101 minutes The Maldives should be celebrating their role in setting an example for the Arab Spring. In 2008, a longstanding dictatorship was …

Remember the line that you would come out of an over-decorated Broadway show singing the chandelier? When you leave Contagion, you’ll head right for the hand sanitizer. Steven Soderbergh’s disaster movie may scare you, although it …

Robert Capa said that if your photograph was no good, you weren’t close enough. In the Spanish Civil War, he and his peers got their feet wet and bloody in the war between the Spaniards who …

By 1964, Ken Kesey had already written two novels that helped define his generation. He was also convinced that the writers of his time wouldn’t be working with anything as conventional as a pen, as he …

No, this isn’t the name of a band. Don’t let this new doc (dir. by Florent Tillon) fall off the radar screen. It played at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Then it turned up at …

In London on June 22, a landscape by Egon Schiele set a world auction record price for the Austrian artist (1890-1918), bringing 22 million pounds (approx. $40 million). The painting, House with Laundry (Suburb II), was …

NEW YORK. Art Spiegelman, who chronicled his father’s experience in Auschwitz in a then-improbable medium, a comic book entitled Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, is at work on his first public art project, a glass mural for …

Here come the Mormons. Forget about the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, where two of the aspirants are Mormon — one announced (or revealed, as religious parlance would have it), one not. The Book of …

Artists like Robert Smithson or Christo who use the earth as a medium have nothing on the mining companies that are out-bulldozing them to redefine the landscape in West Virginia, and threatening to do so wherever …