Why the Mona Lisa remains one of the most famous paintings in the world

An art critic goes to see a Norman Rockwell retrospective

Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.

The sweatless creations of Andy Warhol.

George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.

"The Passion of Anna" is part of the Ingmar Bergman continuum: a self-contained chapter, still a chapter.

Sam Peckinpah has acquired a passion for accurate and revealing Americana used dramatically.

A review of Bullet Park by John Cheever.

The sexual frankness of "The Graduate" is less revolutionary than its moral stance.

Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Night.’

"Ikiru" is a film rooted in the most universal of truths, the one that cuts across all cultural barriers, all concepts of love, success, God: the fact of mortality.