Film

In pop art, a performance piece, and the urban scene, "revolutionary" was the theme du jour for three artistic presentations recently in New York City. Shaun Randol reviews Shepard Fairey's portrait gallery of revolutionary figures; Chaw Ei Thein's tortured performance piece in homage to imprisoned, Burmese revolutionaries; and revolutionary street artist Banksy's film, Exit Through the Gift Shop.

In 2007, filmmaker Michael Moore released Sicko, a documentary that mocked and excoriated a failing H.M.O. health care system in the United States. Three years later, President Obama signed into law legislation that seeks to right some of the wrongs underscored in Moore's film. With health care for every American now in the pipeline, does the country still need this iconoclast? Corinne Goldenberg takes a second look at the controversial film.

What can the Great Depression teach us about today's Great Recession? In her first installment in a multi-part series on the films of these two economic downturns, Padmini Narumanchi looks for some answers in Charlie Chaplin's classic Modern Times.