Dreamers Rise

There are some disadvantages to living in the shadow of a cultural capital, and one of them is not being sufficiently exposed to work by art...

In our image-saturated culture it may be hard to imagine a time when the average European's exposure to visual representations of the wo...

Most cities grow by tearing down the old to make way for the new, erasing the past, eradicating their own histories. With us, this was never...

The man steps from the doorway, hands deep in the pockets of his worn gray coat, and passes into the crowd unnoticed, flowing through the th...

(The artist George Tooker died in Hartland, Vermont on March 27. The following is an abridged and updated version of a piece I originally po...

The wealthy amateur Grent Wayl invited me to his New York house for an evening's diversion... I picked up this volume in the Strand Book...

From an interview with Harry Mathews: INTERVIEWER Did Ashbery introduce you to any writers whose work you did read? MATHEWS Yes, thanks to J...

Thomas Ott is a Swiss artist and graphic novelist whose work consists largely of wordless images rendered with scratchboard and whose tastes...

"This singular being, whose nationality is unknown, converses with no one and wanders forlornly without a seeming motive, or definite o...

He drove south in steady rain as night fell. The radio was staticky from distant lightning and when the station began to fade in and out he ...

By now, the status of the airship as an emblem of a kind of alternative, softer version of modern technological development is a well-establ...

Things seem to be happening so fast of late -- governments falling, state houses under occupation -- that it can be hard to know what to mak...