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Andrew Sloat|Video

More Perfect Union

More Perfect Union spells out the preamble to the United States Constitution with forty friends in a high school gym in New York City. 2007.

Andrew Sloat|Video

22nd Amendment

22nd Amendment, was made in the twilight of Bush's second term, a reminder that sometimes the Constitution is our best friend. 2007

Mark Lamster|Essays

Advance Praise for Master of Shadows

The first notices for Master of Shadows are beginning to flow in, and I'm happy to report that the initial response has been very positive indeed.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Cold Comforts

I can't but write about the objects in Summer Hours, Revolutionary Road, and Frozen River.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Design Your Life

Written in collaboration with her twin sister, Ellen Lupton's Design Your Life is a joyful, thoughtful, rumination on the objects that occupy us, 

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Little Dictators

Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou makes a strong commentary on parenting.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Nostalgia Trip

I can't resist reading Colm Tóbín's new novel called Brooklyn.

Steven Heller|Essays

When Satire Was More Than Funny

"L'Impudique Albion," caricature d'Edouard VII by Jean Veber, L'Assiette au Beurre, Septembre 1901At the turn of the century the French Republic was threatened by a military-church-aristocracy coalition and a huge bureaucratic …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Battle Lines

In Waltz With Bashir, director and protagonist Ari Folman makes amazing use of animation to tell a most unfunny tale of recovered memory and national guilt.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In Spite of Myself

I loved the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace for their message of feminism, love, and class.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Child's Play

Unlike the stories documented in the film Nursery University, my experience of enrolling my child in preschool in New York City was completely different.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Really Great Gatsby

As Jeffrey Trachtenberg reports on the WSJ books blog, last week a 1925 edition of the Great Gatsby, with its vintage surrealist jacket, sold at auction for $180,000.