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Memoir in cartoon of Riad Sattouf’s “The Arab of the Future” A Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Note: I finished the first volume of this very funny memoir: Direct, detailed and to the point. Sattouf describes things as they are, better than I could describe...

This is Part II of our spotlight on Nymphenburg’s fashion project which prompts high-end fashion designers to give the porcelain factory’s classic 18th Century figures a makeover. A description of the project is in part one of this post and...

Benjamin Breen, 2013 This is a story of four different skulls that reached three of the world’s largest museums under less than transparent circumstances—a fact that was mildly ironic given that three of these skulls were carved from rock crystal, and...

I’ve been on mostly-vacation for the past week. I thought I’d share something different. Some of my favorite museums are ones that usually don’t make it to the top of must-do lists. If you find yourself in the vicinity of one of these, you might be in...

View of the Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, from the garden. Photo: © The Kooples. When the exhibition “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles" opens this weekend at two venues in Paris, it will be a first collaboration for an unusual triumvirate...