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You may have heard of some art gallery owners who say, under their breath, of course, that they would prefer to see only serious collectors over regular foot traffic enter

The 'New York Times' best-selling author from Portland embeds herself in the modern art world, searching for purpose.

Radical Wolfe is a new documentary based on a 2015 obituary appreciation written by journalist Michael Lewis for Vanity Fair.

As Tom Wolfe wrote in his 1979 book The Right Stuff, the American press up to the early 1960s had the tone of “The Victorian Gent,” telling Rolling Stone at the time, “I say Victorian gentleman, becau...

Radical Wolfe is just fine. But I wanted more. I wanted to get a better sense of Wolfe as a person, what he was like to work with.

A profile of the author of "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" celebrates his journalistic art, as well as the character he played.

"Radical Wolfe" is only 76 minutes long, but as directed by Richard Dewey, it’s a highly entertaining movie that manages to pack in more or less every important thing you’d want to know about Tom Wolfe.

This week, the editors pair two pieces by Hal Foster: his 2012 essay on Artforum’s early years and a new appraisal of The Anti-Aesthetic at forty.“The notion of postmodernism was once a great stimulant to art and thought,” Hal Foster writes in Artforum’s September issue. “Today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past.” The critic’s reflections on the intellectual hothouse that produced The Anti-Aesthetic—edited in 1983 by Foster at the tender age of twenty-eig...

Advances in production have come in two forms: improvements upon existing means of production and the invention of radically new forms of production. Developments of the former category can often lead to an increase in employment, such as the increase in the number of coal miners following the invention of

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