Is AI Art a ‘Toy’ or a ‘Weapon’?
A prolific AI artist shares his perspective on the controversial medium.
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A More Complete Archive of the American South
Baldwin Lee’s rediscovered photographs are marked by moral clarity and rare intimacy.
Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
Tearing Down the Myth of Paul Gauguin
Daisy Lafarge’s new novel makes it impossible to separate the art from the artist.
How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped
Picasso’s giant mural about the horrors of war left its first viewers cold. How did this painting become one of the most important in the history of art?
Don’t Look Away From Philip Guston’s Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen
The artist’s depictions of bumbling “hoods” lure viewers into considering the proximity of evil.
The Seminal TV Series That Changed How We See
Fifty years after its debut, Ways of Seeing still offers valuable lessons for how to explore—and question—the visual world around us.
Under the Fluorescent Lights
Chauncey Hare captured the drudgery of office life in order to protest it.
The Melville of American Painting
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
‘We Have to Look for Longer’
The curator Sarah Meister on the distinct and meaningful response that war photography can provoke