On Art
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
No longer the best advert for good art
If contemporary art is stuck, what is the fix?
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