"Why are so many people obsessing over an 18-year-old’s face?"

"MUCH OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY exhibited in art galleries these days depends upon a famil­iar paradox. A typical image will announce its artifice in such loud terms, it will so exaggerate its staged departures from the depiction of any “natural” _...Read More_

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"A new exhibition, "Vermeer's Secrets," presents the intriguing possibility that the Golden Age lone wolf may have had an apprentice."

“Architecture has a more definite impact on the world” than language, is how Van den Broeck explains her undertaking to one of many bemused sources. “Besides, buildings have at least a shot at eternity. I don’t have any illusions about my _...Read More_

>"Michelle Goldberg argues in the New York Times that the internet has caused cultural stagnation. She's misdiagnosing the problem."

The Atlantic: How Pop Culture, Politics, Science, and Business Got So Old.

>"However, why? The extraction of the gold needed for one engagement ring results in the generation of twenty tons of trash. In addition, half of all of the gold that is extracted from mines each year…"

"In seeking historical precedence for the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito stretched far beyond the ideology of originalism—the guiding precept among a certain _...Read More_

>"Joan Scott’s On the Judgment of History asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?"

>"A tour of three recent Berlin art initiatives – Center for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Berlin, and Callie’s – poses questions about gentrification, state cultural policy, and the dwindling availability of art spaces in Germany’s _...Read More_

The World Is Splitting in Two Separate events are accelerating a shift that is transforming global politics.

>"In a bid to catch all the Pokémon, someone just paid $420,000 at auction for a Charizard card."

>"Early this year, I found myself obsessed with a 21-year-old whose electronic-pop songs turn the past into something fresh."

""I always remember being at art school and my tutor in a studio visit talking about recognition as an artist, something which I _...Read More_