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On ‘Charles Ray: Figure Ground’, A Radical Conservative Screen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has never looked as sharply contemporary, or even cool, as in the exhibition. “Charles Ray: Figure Ground.” This boldly modernized exhibition examines the five-decade career of remarkable American sculptor Charles Ray in just 19 works of art, three of which are photographic pieces. They occupy a vast gallery of 9,600 …

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Iconoclastic Economics Writer Charles R. Morris Dies At 82

His other books include “A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939 (2017); “The Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom” (2013); “The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker and the Vortex of the Markets” (2009); “Trillion Dollar Meltdown” (2008); “Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)”, which …

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Charles W. Mills, Philosopher of Race and Liberalism, Dies at 70

Charles W. Mills, a London-born, Jamaican philosopher whose sharp critiques of liberalism and race both foreshadowed and framed contemporary debates about white supremacy and structural racism, died September 20 in Evanston, Illinois. He was 70 years old. The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where he once taught, said in the announcement …

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Charles G. Sellers, Historian Who Disappointed Post-War Consensus, Dies

The historian Charles G. Sellers, whose work on America in the early 19th century helped subvert the postwar consensus that democracy and capitalism developed together, died Thursday at his home in Berkeley, California, showing that they were more often at odds than in reality. He was 98 years old. His wife, historian and philosopher Carolyn …

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