J. Hoberman

From slum clearance to beatnik protests, how Greenwich Village became a battleground over race, art, and redevelopment.

"Henry Fonda for President" more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary.

At once famous and obscure, marginal and central, Harry Smith anticipated and even invented several important elements of Sixties counterculture.

During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.

In the late Sixties, countercultural media was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and bankrolled by marijuana.

A show at the Jewish Museum surveys three eventful years of art, film, and performance in New York City—and the political upheavals that defined them.

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.