Am Rande. A report from Berlin, whose cultural scene is in danger of losing something fundamental nytimes.com/2024/04/06/art…

A note on Richard Serra, on the vanished 90s, on the torqued ellipses come September nytimes.com/2024/03/28/art…

To Roberta Smith, with awe and admiration: a treasured colleague for a decade, a critical model for a lifetime nytco.com/press/roberta-…

Don’t fear algorithms that imitate humans; fear the reverse nytimes.com/2023/12/28/art…

Notes on war photography in the 21st century; on the infrared surveillance camera vs. the everyday smartphone; on the poor image as weapon nytimes.com/2023/10/12/art…

Evan Gershkovich appeared in court today in Moscow, and had his appeal denied yet again. He has now been held unjustly for more than six months.

#freeEvan wsj.com/world/russia/r…

'Dear Mr Foe,
At last I could row no further.…'

Very glad to have been invited to write for the New York Times Books Essentials series on the books of J.M. Coetzee, morose master of my heart nytimes.com/article/jm-coe…

🚨OLYMPIA HAS ARRIVED🚨

For our fall preview, it could only be “Manet/Degas” — and the courtesan, maid and cat taking a one-time-only trip to New York. (Closes with some breaking Victorine Meurent news!) nytimes.com/2023/09/09/art…

AN EXHIBITION OF GASOLINE POWERED ENGINES. On Ed Ruscha at MoMA, an immensity nytimes.com/2023/09/07/art…

on the modern life of Blaise Cendrars, highlight of a lovely summer season at the Morgan nytimes.com/2023/08/03/art…

A good thing: I’m this week’s guest on the Martha Stewart podcast… 🍰

iheart.com/podcast/1119-t…

On the brutal, and very important, '20 Days in Mariupol' nytimes.com/2023/07/13/mov…

Our front page today. #IStandWithEvan

'What Hokusai and his successors affirm over and over is that there’s no such thing as a pure 'culture' divisible from others — not even the culture of a shogunate whose subjects couldn’t leave on pain of death.' Jason Farago nytimes.com/2023/06/22/art…

On Hokusai, and how to live in a floating world nytimes.com/2023/06/22/art…

At least “Björk” believed in art nytimes.com/2023/06/01/art…