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Hong Kong Dreamin'

Greg Girard, Wong Kar-wai, and a city that was always half home

The democratic legacy of Le Corbusier.

Spanish version below.

Rousseau Without Borders

On Rousseau's retrospective at the Orangerie — and what a train ride through Java revealed about his work.

A Year After the Silk Road

I spent the days following Easter 2025 in Uzbekistan, traversing the old Silk Road by train.

A Still Voyage: Hammershøi at the Thyssen

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza sits on the Paseo del Prado, its neoclassical façade absorbing the early spring light of Madrid.

Le Mouvement

In reflection on Denise René and Le Mouvement

Snow, Solitude, and Léon Spilliaert

Tucked in a courtyard off Rue Vieille du Temple in the Marais, David Zwirner boasts one of the most impressive gallery spaces in Paris intra-muros.

Mitchell Johnson: Personal Color (Selected Paintings 1988–2026)

Gallery opening in Paris on February 28

Maurice Denis and Fra Angelico at Étretat

The power of the Louvre lies not only in the history of the works it houses, but in the history of the artists those works have formed.

Curvature as Method in Niemeyer’s MAC

The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), inaugurated in 1996 and designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is one of the most iconic works of modern Brazilian architecture.