
From Exile to Acclaim, the Unlikely Story of Mu Xin, and China’s Reformation
Landscaping along the 87-mile stretch of highway from Shanghai to the ancient village of Wuzhen in southern China is a work in progress. On…
Read MoreLandscaping along the 87-mile stretch of highway from Shanghai to the ancient village of Wuzhen in southern China is a work in progress. On…
Read MoreA small white boat navigates forceful swells and choppy waves. No land in sight, this lone vessel presses forth. Fortunately, the lightly clouded sky…
Read MoreIn 1968 political turmoil and tumult reverberated throughout America, Europe, and beyond. Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm described this year as a signpost; almost every…
Read MoreThe image above is an installation shot from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. It was a recreation of Harald Szeeman’s famous exhibition…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, an old friend posted a j’accuse on social media. It was brief and blunt and perhaps even rude. They…
Read MoreJoseph Tisiga is an emerging artist of a particular stripe. He is young (born in 1984), and very successful: he was nominated as a…
Read MoreCorazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…
Read MoreIn an 1854 painting called The Meeting, a young Gustave Courbet depicted himself encountering a rich art patron and his servant. Such was the…
Read MoreNobody likes them. Even if you do enjoy an art fair, it would be gauche to say so. You go because it’s your job….
Read MoreSuture: A joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching. The unexpectedly sensuous definition of the clinical term “stitching”…
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