Art
The Global Guides program at the Penn Museum hires recent refugees from the Middle East to give personalized tours. The leader of my tour was Moumena Saradar, a refugee from Syria who has lived in Philadelphia for two years.
Art
By asking what is and is not allowed, for whom, and who is writing the rules Curriculum at EFA Project Space offers tangible opportunities to challenge viewers' thinking.
Books
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion serves as a thorough introduction to a work of great literary and art-historical importance.
Art
The curator-centric fair gave space for artists to pay tribute to Los Angeles in a spirit of DIY-fun.
Interview
In a conversation we had in Cape Town, I attempted to better understand Jaar's deep belief in art's capacity to effect change amid political disorder.
Art
A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones.
Performance
Elevation 1049 in the Swiss Alps seeks to gather art world glitterati in the mountain town of Gstaad for a singular art festival experience.
Art
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Books
Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.
Books
Malech poems foreground the beauty and power of form in her willingness to follow its constraints uncertain of the end result.
Art
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
Art
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.