This book was truly enlightening. I am so happy that I picked it up. I had never given much thought to museums, unless I was within the walls of one. Even then, as I was looking at artifacts, I never thought "Where did this artifact come from? How did it get here?". Sharon Waxman's book shines a ...
I wish Loot had been 100% historical and 0% about the modern crime of art looting, because I would have enjoyed 100% of it. On the other hand, I appreciate the questions raised about art repatriation and the role of the museum in the modern world. I didn't know just how smug some curators are. Th...
Late in the summer of '99 I was dumped by my first girlfriend in a cabin somewhere in the mountains of Montana. Earlier that spring, RUSHMORE hit local screens. I fell in love with it. Actually love is too weak a word for what I felt, I was in lurve with RUSHMORE. I ended up seeing the film five ...
xiii “…bullet in my brain”: Tarantino, author interview. xiv “…not to pollute my movie”: Lisa Y. Garibay, “Anderson’s Valley,” IFP West Calendar December/1999. xiv “…American New Wave”: Steven Soderbergh, author interview. xvi “it’s no Air Force One”: Bill Mechanic, author interview. xvi “we have...