Excerpted from Phaidon’s Akademie X: Lessons in Art & Life, Kraus’s essay welds together the personal, political, and theoretical into what amounts to a fascinating new framework through which to ...

It’s a little crazy to me that Cotter’s fretful, sweeping state-of-the-scene piece is already a year old. But it stands in here for all the angst of money in a year of record auction prices and ...

In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that "what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world." Fifteen years on, Fraser's words still ring true. But finding the words for why ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest book in English, In the Land of the Cyclops, translated by Martin Aitken, is an essay collection on art, literature, and life that opens with an apparition of a child’s ...

In 1936 Karl Hofer painted the work that best encapsulates the dilemma of German artists in the first half of the 20th century. Kassandra is a bleak vision of the prophetess of Ancient Troy, doomed ...

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently ...

The third section of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is Truth. Without knowing the truth of the history of Australia’s Indigenous people, and how the European invasion continues to impact on them, ...

GIVING has never been easy—as the Magi, those first Christmas givers, discovered when they arrived with offerings fit for a king only to find a babe lying in a stable. Still, in the early centuries ...

Art, though a human craft, gains new form when curated. Whether conserved, contained or placed (un)symmetrically, it becomes sculpted and reinterpreted for the human eye. Museums are a representative ...

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