Duchamp vs. the Dingbats
If he were around today, he’d be mocking today’s pieties, not joining the chorus. A new documentary about him misses the mark.
Books, Arts & Manners
War, Fever, and Baseball in 1918
Reading that history should offer us a little inoculation against a recurrence of panic and embrace of government authoritarianism.
Reclaiming the ‘F Word’
A new book traces the history of American feminism and how it became entangled with the abortion-rights movement.
The War of the Sexes in The Quiet Man
The 1950s classic still has a lot to say.
Aubrey Beardsley at the Tate: ‘Quite Mad and a Little Indecent’
Suffering from TB, he indulged a unique vision.
Ask Museum of the Bible: The Truth Shall Set You Free
Museum officials made mistakes but acted honorably. The larger artifacts market could benefit from the lessons they learned.
The Marcel Marceau Biopic Has Nothing to Say
Jesse Eisenberg’s Resistance pays unimaginative tribute to sentimentality.
Pedro Costa: The Rembrandt of the Ghetto
His high art exposes Hollywood’s failed pathos.
The Suppressed Woody Allen Movie
A Rainy Day in New York deserves a U.S. release, though it’s a so-so effort.
Read ‘Middlemarch’
People who read novels all have the one that got away — the one big famous book they have started, and maybe started a dozen times, but never finished.