Arts + Culture

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Mysteries of France:
A Gothic Guidebook

Guide de la France mystérieuse, illustrated by Roman Cieslewicz, is a surreal beast of a travel book.

Sam Jacob|Essays

Daniel Weil: Timeless

Daniel Weil's clocks might tell the time, but that’s not their real job.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Tracks of My Tears

As Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs make clear, your tears are yours alone and each one is different.

Rob Walker|Essays

An End of Things

The life of a thing, the death of an object — and maybe a new life to follow? At Liberty Auction in Pembroke, Georgia.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Shadwell Shams: A Tale of Two Forgers

“There’s a sucker born every minute.”

John Foster|Essays

Whirlwinds, Snowdrops, and Big Bangs: Vintage Fireworks Labels

Happy 4th of July!

Jennifer Kabat|Interviews

Exhibition as Inquiry: An Interview with Kieran Long

Guns, shoes and cheap jeans: Kieran Long has added all of these to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection.

Laura Tarrish|Essays

Hunter | Gatherer: Text as Textile

Evidence of fabric embellished with needle and thread has been found as far back as the Cro-Magnon days (30,000 B.C.). The artists featured here, writing with stitchery, challenge our expectations of what is commonly considered a domestic …

Véronique Vienne|Essays

Two Monumental Shows in Paris: One Large, One Small

There are two shows you shouldn’t miss if you happen to be in Paris this summer.

Jason Grant|Essays

Black, Red + Gold

A conversation about colonization and visual resistance in Australia.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Jeff Koons’s Studio: An ER Room for Art

Walking into Jeff Koons’s studio is like entering a medical laboratory crossed with an open plan office. It’s an ER room for art.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Magic and Mystery in the Art of Katrien De Blauwer

Katrien De Blauwer's work is infused with psychological overtones — like viewing two or three frames from a film noir movie, only reassembled into something even more mysterious.