Top Ten - Delia Brown's picks

ArtForum, Jan, 2003 by Delia Brown

9 12 WEWS OF MANET'S BAR (Princeton University Press, 1996) Down this case of essays on Un Bar aux Folies-Bergere and you'll have absorbed a dozen ideological approaches at work in current art-history academia. Before the binge begins, be sure to have T.J. Clark's exhaustive socioeconomic analysis of the continually confounding picture as an aperitif.

10 RED HOT RIOT (MCA Records, 2002) The latest installment in a compilation series created to raise money for AIDS awareness and relief programs, this album is dedicated to the late chief rocker Fela Kuti and features remakes and Fela-inspired original songs by everyone from his offspring to Talib Kweli, Money Mark, Macy Gray, and Meshell Ndegeocello. Love the syncopated, dubwise remix of Sade's "By Your Side."