Where are We Going?
And where did we come from?
A bunch of paintings contain lessons for the future.
By Matthew Collings Read the Article
22 Private Eye
One-Bed Uffizi
Megumi Sasaki on her new film and its intriguing subjects, the unlikely super-collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, who recently donated more than 4,000 works to museums across America.
By Christopher Turner Read the Article
24 Architecture & Design
Museum Memory
Renzo Piano’s expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago is about to open with 65,000 square feet of new gallery space.
By Claire Barliant Read the Article
26 Working Practice
The Invented Worlds of Paolo Ventura
The Italian photographer explains how he creates startlingly evocative tableaux from the humblest of materials.
By Reuel Golden Read the Article
28 Artist’s Collection
Bean There
Alison Knowles, Fluxus artist, student of John Cage, friend of Marcel Duchamp, talks about how her collection of beans has inspired poems and happenings.
By Jeremy Sigler Read the Article
30 Art and Science
Neuroaesthetics
Scientist Semir Zeki has been awarded a million pounds to discover how beauty excites the brain.
By Tim Adams Read the Article
28 Introducing: Jonathan VanDyke
Drip by Drip
Jonathan VanDyke’s performances, photomontages, and installations undermine macho AbEx bluster.
By Joseph R. Wolin Read the Article
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40 Lightning Fields
Hiroshi Sugimoto thinks that a good photographer always has to be part scientist. He gives us an exclusive preview of his latest experimental work. Read the Article
46 Portfolio
Vince Aletti selects five
photographers to watch. Read the Article
As a recent show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris made clear, Sophie Ristelhueber’s work is about much more than the aftermath of violence.
By Claire Barliant Read the Article
April’s Zona Maco fair is only part of the lively art scene here that appeals to worldly travelers. Read this Article
80 Meeting of Minds
Walead Beshty puts four questions to Karl Hanedel
The artists take on asking the right questions, man as prosthesis-god, and alienating the reader in a Burroughsian, “cut-up” interview. Read the Article