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December 14, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
Photographing Old Russia with a Modern Filter
Young Russian Instagrammers are reimagining their country's cultural spaces for themselves.
December 11, 2015
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
The Art That Has No Name
Before the eighteenth century, most pictures didn’t have titles. The public gallery changed everything.
December 9, 2015
James McAuley
The Tale of the Talking Painting
Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, told from the point of view of a Watteau painting, skewers the art world.
December 1, 2015
Edward Docx
The Hirst Corporation
Can a new gallery revive a fading art world star?
December 1, 2015
James McAuley
The Delicate Art of Memory
Edmund de Waal’s new book is an odyssey into an obsession with porcelain.
November 30, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
“Drive cleaner. Or just pretend to,” says Volkswagen.
November 18, 2015
Molly Crabapple
Drawn and Cornered
A young artist hustles her way through New York City.
November 13, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Stephen Colbert points out that network TV's rules about art and nudity are completely ridiculous.
November 13, 2015
Theodore Ross
Ai Weiwei wants your Legos for art.
November 13, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
If you grew up playing racing games, there’s something soothingly familiar about staring into a horizon on an infinite road.
November 5, 2015
Jo Livingstone
What Your Tattoo Says About the World
A new book dissects the meanings of tattoo cultures
October 30, 2015
Anna Wiener
Paris Was Wild, Once
Luc Sante’s new book looks longingly back at a more sinful time
October 28, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
The Fine Art of Fashion
A new book collects images of women in poses from famous paintings
September 30, 2015
Sharon Mizota
At the Broad Museum, All is Vanity
The billionaire’s new Los Angeles museum is a beautiful lens awaiting a vision.
September 21, 2015
Kyle Chayka
A Painter for Our Absurd Age of Pop Culture
August 24, 2015
Miya Tokumitsu
The Politics of the Curation Craze
Amid flat wages and dwindling public services, curation gives us the illusion of control.
May 15, 2015
Cara Parks
Instill Life
The dark and light of Sally Mann
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
March 16, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
How Did Sex Become So Boring?
Once a political act, it's now all about self-discovery

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