The Possibilities of the Novel: A Conversation with Noémi Lefebvre
A conversation with the breakout French author on shame, memory, Schoenberg, structural circularity, and all the rest.
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Author: Cody Delistraty
The Dual-Nature of Satire
Contrasting approaches by two famous French cartoonists—Georges Wolinski and Plantu—show differing ways of poking fun at the powerful.
Changing Rituals: A Conversation with Nancy Jo Sales
Nancy Jo Sales on the changes of childhood and the irredeemability of Facebook.
The Fraught Future of the Ethnographic Museum
With President Macron poised to make changes to France’s handling of ethnographic art, the quai Branly would do well to follow suit—instead, they’re suspiciously dodging the issue.
The Art of Madness
On the link between insanity and creativity and how the art of turn-of-the-century mentally ill asylum patients became the basis of contemporary art, from Duchamp to Twombly to Cattelan.
Emmanuel Macron’s Grand Narrative
Three contemporary French authors illuminate the president’s divisive neoliberal agenda and how a diversionary ‘Europe under attack’ narrative might be the key to his success.
Can We Separate Art from Artist?
On the allegations against the photorealist Chuck Close, the conflation of art and artist, and the nuances therein.
