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I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking…

Everyone’s a Critic

From a list of accidental damage done to works of art since 2000, collected in Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World, which will be published this…

Stages of Grief

by William Deresiewicz,

What the pandemic has done to the arts

Slash Fictions

by Noah Sneider,

A vandalized painting and the legacy of Ivan the Terrible

From explanations given by the Chinese government for why certain artists and celebrities are banned from entering or performing in the country. Behaving badly in social lifeAssociating with countercultureUsing profanity…