Sharon Hayes’ current solo show at the Whitney Museum illuminates the psychological intensity of history and the political capacity of the personal.

They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at how photographs have been modified and fabricated since the invention of the medium.

Architects, activists, and artists reimagine America’s failing suburbs.

Winkleman Gallery revives history painting.

Ai hopes the London Olympics will be different than Beijing.

Vanity Fair recently released a preview of Hitchen’s foreword to Orwell’s diaries, showing how both consensus-spurning authors crafted their critiques.

A donation of €150,000,000 worth of modern art is causing headaches for Berlin’s cultural authorities. With so little museum space and so much to show, curators and administrators are being asked to choose whether to display old masters or twentieth century icons.

Nowhereisland, an island nation, is being pulled around Britain by a tugboat, challenging normative conceptions of territory and state. The project, however lacks substance.

Photographer Joe Klamar caught some flack for his less-than-flattering portraits of the US Olympic Team.

Shamus Khan postulates that elitism is no longer expressed by enjoying highbrow arts, but rather by indulging a wide range of cultural preferences, from cheap Chinese food to Tchaikovsky.