Email Author R. C. Baker

2006 Stories by R. C. Baker

• Graphic Marvels

  published November 28, 2006

  Precursors to Japan's huge manga industry, ehon (literally, "picture books") were first published circa A.D. 770 by an empress attempting to... More >>

• Beauties and Beastliness

  published August 15, 2006

  In one corner is Juergen Teller's 2005 color photo of Hitler's Nuremburg podium, the concrete now uneven and stained, and his shot of an... More >>

• Christians to Lions

  published August 8, 2006

  This marvelous exhibition of drawings and prints reveals anew why Rembrandt is always in vogue. Two stages of a Crucifixion scene have the... More >>

• Red Carpet Treatment

  published July 25, 2006

  You enter the gallery on a carpet of push-broom heads, the coarse red bristles making for a bouncy "Walk of Fame." A nearby video chronicles... More >>

• The Examined Life

  published July 18, 2006

  The exhibition announcement offers a juxtaposition of presidential pomp and peccadilloes: on the left, Jackie in a limo, white gloves and pillbox... More >>

• Women's Work

  published July 4, 2006

  Although comics are generally a testosterone desert, some women, as evidenced by this 100-year survey in MOCCA's friendly, ramshackle space, have... More >>

• Southern Gothic

  published June 20, 2006

  A white man wearing a high-collared, richly brocaded jacket slowly rises into the frame; the chiaroscuro lighting and long, high-ceilinged halls... More >>

• Heavy Metal

  published June 13, 2006

  Blunt even for Serra, these thick slabs and mammoth plugs of steel look simpler than his earlier enclosing spirals and tilted walls. Yet to walk... More >>

• The Politics of Eradication

  published April 4, 2006

  Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue Through July 9 Some 3,500 years ago,... More >>