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In the end a lot of Surrealism suffers from the scripting of manifest content with latent meaning: the artist encodes,...

Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynamic, and prosperous, whole and not mutilated; that it would have been better to let them develop and fulfil themselves than to present for our admiration, duly labeled, their dead and scattered parts; that anyway, the museum by itself is nothing; that it means nothing, vanity. can say nothing, when smug self-satisfaction rots the eyes, when a secret contempt for others withers the he

Tobias Carroll recommends a Palestinian memoir, a novel of mid-century Suriname, a surreal generational saga from Canada, and more.

In one of his newspapers or Notebooks, Albert Camus Definition of a famous person as someone whose first name does not matter. He himself is a role model

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to broach a sensitive subject with one’s parent.

More than 80 works by around 50 artists show how the Malaga painter lives on in modern creation: from Bacon, Basquiat and Bourgeois to Calvin and Green

On Annie Ernaux’s spectacular impersonality

A 60-year “obsession” began when Michael Peppiatt set out for Paris with a letter of introduction from Francis Bacon

This article will be released in full online June 5, 2023. In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the…

She and the painter were a couple for 10 years and had two children together, Paloma and Claude. After 70 years, France is now beginning to revisit the work of an artist