A theft in Norway / Peter Schjeldahl --
On Romare Bearden / August Wilson --
This is our world / Dorothy Allison --
The art city our fathers built / Alfred Kazin --
Still life : notes on Pierre Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday / Mary Gordon --
Portraits and dreams : photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians / Wendy Ewald --
The art of seeing / Jed Perl --
Why abstract painting still matters / Laurie Fendrich --
Doubletake : the diary of a relationship with an image / Lucy R. Lippard --
Art and the discourse of nations / Arthur C. Danto --
Art is for everybody / bell hooks --
Y : the art critic / Jennifer Belle --
Frivolity and unction / Dave Hickey --
To take paper, to draw : a world through lines / John Berger --
The Panorama Mesdag / Mark Doty.