Lance Armstrong, Ryan Lochte and the Marketing of Controversy
Has the public appetite for sports controversy reached a fever pitch?
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The Myth of the Artistic Genius
On two forgotten portraitists and how to actually alter the art historical canon.
The False Promise of the Cashless Society
Is the price of convenience in a cashless world worth the human cost?
Market Values
How close, really, is the link between art and society?
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.
The Dubious Politics of Art Restitution
The French President’s recent comments hint at a dubious politics: using art restitution as a stopgap to France’s postcolonial responsibilities.
Re-thinking the Coming-of-Age Tale
How can you go about finding out ‘who you really are’ if the whole idea is a cultural fabrication?
Donald Trump, Meet Louis XIV
Mass intimacy requires a dilution of one’s complexities. In order to become a celebrity, a person necessarily becomes a personage.
Drugs du Jour
How we get high reflects the desires and fears of our times.
Who Has the Right to Walk?
On the female flâneur, the plight of visibility, and why the history of walking requires revision.
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