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Yayoi Kusama, the World’s Most Photographed Recluse
Yayoi Kusama in Paris, 2001. Sygma via Getty Images (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on July 18, 2012.) It should be impossible to make a dull exhibition...
In Books, the California Promise and a Century of Reinvention
'Cannery Row' by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck is the novelist of early California. His canonical works, namely Of Mice and Men and the epics East of Eden and The...
Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay
Steven Seidenberg, Untitled, from his series The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South. Courtesy of the artist Too often, photographers play with images of ruin aesthetics...
How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete
Installation view: “Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor,” 2015. Photograph by Thomas Griesel Every two years, the Venice Biennale and its collaterals present a series of curatorial...
FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art
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Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise
Catherine Opie, Circle of Ice, 2024. © Catherine Opie. Courtesy the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul; Thomas Dane Gallery. London...
The Long View: What Qatar Can Teach Us About Investing in Culture
“Matter Diplopia,” VCUarts Qatar’s first exhibition at the London Design Biennale, London, in June 2025. Photo: Dean Rossiter Photography Around the world, public and institutional support for the arts...
Where to Learn the Sports Behind the Ivy League Look
Fencing The white jacket may appear civilized, but actual fencing involves lunges, lateral movement and a surprising amount of sweat inside a mesh mask. Fencers Club, established in 1883,...
A Grown-Up Guide to the Ivy League College Town Weekend
Family Weekend begins only weeks after college move-in, while the Target receipts are still turning up. By the time you return to campus, your child has built a life...
The Shoe That Conquered Dry Land: A Brief History of the Boat Shoe
In the winter of 1935, a Connecticut sailor named Paul Sperry watched his cocker spaniel cross a sheet of ice without slipping and decided the dog knew something he...
