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The new president has inspired, and made inspired use of, an entirely new attitude among America’s artists toward an American politician: adoring veneration.
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September 2009 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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January 2009 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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A master of modernism and the subject of a new comprehensive biography, Le Corbusier remains a forbiddingly elusive subject.
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November 2008 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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The example of this minor master, at once a pioneer of modernism and an important Jewish artist, may be more compelling than the sum of his aesthetic legacy.
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October 2008 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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The National Endowment for the Arts has learned the lessons of the tumultuous 80's—at great cost.
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January 2008 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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An interview with Michael J. Lewis.
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Web Only |
Michael J. Lewis |
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September 2007 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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July/August 2007 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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May 2007 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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The godfather of the "Williams Art Mafia" was a quiet eccentric who, writing little, saw much.
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April 2007 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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Günther von Hagens’s “plastinated” cadavers tell us as much about our culture as Michelangelo’s David does about his.
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January 2007 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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December 2006 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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The new films are better than one had reason to expect, if far from what one might have hoped for.
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October 2006 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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May 2006 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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April 2006 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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At top museums, the ethos of stewardship has given way to box office and, worse, cultural self-doubt.
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March 2006 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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January 2006 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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December 2004 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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Joining art and celebrity was fun while it lasted; ask Herbert Mushcamp, late of the Times.
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October 2004 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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Master and Commander stands head and shoulders over recent Hollywood forays into history.
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January 2004 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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Poking pictorial fun at the "establishment" has never been more necessary--or trickier.
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October 2003 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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The architect who will rebuild the World Trade Center site is widely admired, impeccably credentialed, and a poseur.
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May 2003 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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The commemorations of September 11 were somber, dignified, and instructively empty.
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November 2002 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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July/August 2002 |
Reviewed by Michael J. Lewis |
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It is too soon to devise a war memorial--which hasn't stopped anyone yet.
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April 2002 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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At a small, elite college, saluting the flag is, even now, a countercultural statement.
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November 2001 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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In architecture, nothing makes the modernist movement look better than placing it alongside its successors.
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September 2001 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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Even in the age of the sound bite it is possible, if not common, for politicians to say what they mean.
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June 2001 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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Recent and proposed additions to the Washignton Mall commemorate the confusions of an antiheroic age.
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February 2001 |
Michael J. Lewis |
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The Sacagawea dollar, soon upon us, embodies to perfection the anti-heroism of the moment, political and aesthetic alike.
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October 1999 |
Michael J. Lewis |
