Art Week Paris
Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire
On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending an art fair while smelling burning plastic.
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The Rise and Fall of My Wikipedia Page
After a short entry about me mysteriously appeared, anonymous users debated whether I was credible enough to justify my own page.
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Dear Art World, We Can Tell When You’re Using AI
Institutions, especially well-resourced museums, foundations, and cultural organizations, have no excuse for relying on generative tools instead of paying writers.
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The Museum Director as Gardener
Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.
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The Overlooked Black Architect Who Shaped a Landmark Smithsonian Museum
Max Bond Jr., who lobbied for and co-designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, deserves a larger place in history.
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Standing in the Shadow of No Towers
The struggle for immigrant rights and lives after 9/11 defined a generation of South Asian art and activism, even if it felt at times like we were trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
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Lonnie Bunch’s Resignation Is a Wake-Up Call
Trump was a necessary blunt instrument for the coordinated fascist assault on the United States, but a hammer no longer matters once a picture has been hung on the wall.
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The Pine Trees That Would Not Leave Me
While visiting the Lebanese mountain town Dhour El Choueir, I couldn't shake off a painting and a poem I had translated two decades earlier.
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What I Got Wrong About Krasner and Pollock
I had assumed that loving an artist meant disappearing a little, and I had assumed that Lee Krasner had been forced to shrink, too.
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AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity
The recent revelation about Anthropic’s systematic digitization and destruction of out-of-print books portends a rapacious future, one where soulless LLMs swell while the shelves starve.
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The Smithsonian Is Not the President's Museum
The Trump administration’s latest order marks an unprecedented effort to subordinate one of America's foremost public institutions to partisan power.
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Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue
The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.