Art

Slash Fictions

By Noah Sneider,

1. As closing time at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery approached on May 25, 2018, Igor Podporin, a balding thirty-seven-year-old with sunken eyes, circled the Russian history room. The elderly museum attendees…

Red Tape

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…

The Lightness

By Catherine Meurisse,

Rallying Tries

From posters painted by North Korean artists and sold internationally by an Italian company. Read More

Outside the White Box

By Mark Kingwell,

Discussed in this essay: Portraits: John Berger on Artists, by John Berger. Verso. 544 pages. $44.95. versobooks.com. Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, by Hal Foster. Verso. 208 pages. $26.95.…

Pakistan in Miniatures

By Sage Mehta,

Pakistan’s National College of Arts, a redbrick building pushed back from Lahore’s busy Mall Road, is a somehow pleasing Orientalist mash-up built in 1875 by Rudyard Kipling’s father. The central…

Wild Pigeon

By Carolyn Drake,

Art Beyond Politics

By Robyn Creswell, on August 26, 2014

At the New Museum’s latest show, Arab artists take up — and look past — regional politics to question their own modes of expression Read More

Pie Fight Interior 2

By Adrian Ghenie, on March 12, 2014

Pie Fight Interior 2, a painting by Adrian Ghenie, whose work was on view last May at Pace Gallery, in New York City. © The artist. Courtesy Pace Gallery, New…

[Untitled]

By Kim Thue, on March 3, 2014

An untitled photograph by Kim Thue from Dead Traffic, a book of his work in Sierra Leone, published in 2012 by dienacht Publishing. Courtesy the artist and dienacht Publishing. This photograph appears in the…

Shoreham

By William Mackinnon, on February 24, 2014

Shoreham, a painting by William Mackinnon, whose work was on view last November at Utopian Slumps, in Melbourne. © The artist. Courtesy Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C. This image appears in the Readings…

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