Articles of Note

You?ve probably never heard of Mansudae Art Studio, but you know its social-realist, grandiose North Korean aesthetic. Now available for export... more »

New Books

John Gray ? glorious pessimist, passive nihilist ? is the great Schopenhauerian European Buddhist of our age. Simon Critchley explains... more »

Essays & Opinions

Picasso and Matisse viewed Chagall with contempt. Why? Because he was better than good. He was lucky, always in the right place ? Moscow, Paris, New York ? at the right time... more »