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What Plato, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Werner Herzog, Iris Murdoch, Ai Weiwei, and Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder might teach us abo

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparen

The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.

I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death.

Transience has come to inform so much of Japan’s culture — even its sense of self.

As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pion

Elizabeth Bishop was a master at containing and concealing emotion, but her extraordinary poem “One Art” is a moving testament to loss.

Lucas Samaras lived and worked on the 62nd floor of a Midtown building, transforming the space into a creative retreat unlike any other.

Gombrich explores the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals, while ArtReview inserts a few thoughts on

Originally published on Nov. 15, 2017