Arts in the Afternoon: ‘Friday’-Free Friday

Published April 15, 2011 8:04pm ET



The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art opens the first major American exhibit on graffiti — and promptly the neighborhood becomes victim to more graffiti.

A grade-school poem written by David Foster Wallace is published in the Guardian. Can a shopping list be far behind?

Mulroney: The Opera is so bad, it even makes a Globe and Mail critic feel sympathy for the former Canadian prime minister.

How Shakespeare makes us smarter.

Happy Birthday, Henry James, American master — or, as Garrison Keillor says, “the master of the long sentence.”