Her Name is Laure
An exhibition at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay centers on a black model named Laure in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and reinterrogates the role of black people in art history.
Author: Cody Delistraty
The Future of Writing
An exhibition at the British Library in London questions the future of writing.
How Germany’s Far Right is Co-opting Art History
What does Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1866 painting ‘Slave Market’ say about today’s extremist politics?
Sally Rooney’s Politics of Millennial Resignation
A review of Sally Rooney’s Normal People
In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play
An exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arab in Paris explores a century of shifting Arab power through the lens of soccer.
What’s Behind the French National Assembly’s Racist Mural?
How a petition to remove the artwork has raised questions of censorship and the “infiltration” of American identity politics
The Whitney’s Choice
Can a Museum for ‘Progressive Artists’ Have an Arms-Manufacturer Vice-Chairman?
