The Intelligence of Plants
What if plants are smarter than we think—a lot smarter?
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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.
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
Does Bad Romance Lead to Great Art?
Is it only within the context of romantic unrest that the best art can be made?
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.
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.
Rediscovering the Overlooked Talent of Camille Claudel
With 11 of her works on show at the Musée d’Orsay, one of the most underrated sculptors in modern European history is brought out from the shadows
The Parisian Label That Grapples with Race, Class, and Gentrification
Pigalle Paris, a brand beloved by everyone from Rihanna to Chanel’s president of fashion, addresses the racial and social frictions in the capital.
The Endless Appropriations of Virgil Abloh
Abloh’s latest menswear collection attempts to subvert middle-class malaise, but instead showcases the fashion industry’s obsession with ceaseless borrowing from other cultures and social classes.
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