From Spiked, is modern art a left-wing conspiracy? A review of Modernism: The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay. A review of Creators: From Chaucer to Walt Disney by Paul Johnson. What's ugly? Is it the flip-side of beautiful? Umberto Eco says it depends on who's doing the looking. Architectural cannibalism in Athens: An excerpt from Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction by Nikos A. Salingaros. A review of A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong and Cathedral: The Great English Cathedrals and the World that Made Them by Jon Cannon. Building a brand: How architecture firms name themselves. Love by a thousand cuts: Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of history seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy. A review of Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs. A review of Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema: Origins, Functions, Meanings by Eirik Frisvold Hanssen. Secret lives of others: It doesn't matter if films play fast and loose with historical facts — what matters is to convey the spirit of the age and its players. A review of Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theater, 1865-1914 by Kim Marra. A review of Ethel Merman: A Life by Brian Kellow and Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman by Caryl Flinn.
