Email Author Barbara Pollack

2003 Stories by Barbara Pollack

• Light Show

  published September 9, 2003

  Pray it don't rain! At least not for five minutes—starting at 7:45 sharp—on the night of September 15, when Cai Guo-Qiang's Light... More >>

• The Afrobeat Generation

  published July 22, 2003

  Nothing can be said about a performer posthumously—not Elvis, not Hendrix, not even Kurt Cobain—that can capture the thrill of their... More >>

• Deft in Venice

  published June 17, 2003

  Like the ghost of Othello hovering overhead, a dazzling chandelier of jet-black, hand-blown glass fills the rotunda of the United States pavilion... More >>

• The Art of War

  published April 1, 2003

  "War. It's So-o-o-o 20th Century!" declared one of the more humorous posters in Washington Square Park on March 22, dissing the bombing of Iraq as... More >>