Art Review by Walter Holland Some Thoughts After Seeing the New Museum’s Retrospective Exhibition “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” The Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu recently received a full retrospective of her art at New York’s New Museum. Mutu’s art is multi-media in nature. Mutu, born in Nairobi in 1972, in the exhibition notes is said to have gained “acclaim in the early 2000s for her collage-based practice.” Her art is further described as addressing “legacies of colonialism,...

When I go to my local branch of the New York Public Library, I always make sure I check the “New Arrivals” shelf for the most recent titles in Fiction and Non-Fiction. Unfortunately Poetry is mixed-in with Non-Fiction and seems the lonely, forgotten stepchild. You need to look for 811, which is the Dewey Decimal classification number for poetry. Anyway, I try to browse all the most recent titles for all kinds of books from the current year and take home one or more that particularly...

It was called An American Werewolf in London. Released in August of 1981, it was written and directed by John Landis and apparently was...