Test 2018 posts
Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene
New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.
Thomas Ruff
Test 2018 posts
How the Cosmos Has Inspired a Photographer's Vision
Thomas Ruff's photographs question history, art making, and the medium itself.
Art
Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
Books
The Scientific Artist: On Reading Michel Houellebecq
I can think of no better way to frame a brief introduction to Houellebecq’s work (still largely unfamiliar to Americans) than to structure it around a tension between analysis and lyricism.