ESSAYS
THE SANDSTORM
The Louvre Abu Dhabi, opening next year, stands to upend everything we know about museums, and about democracy. Who is it for? by Kanishk Tharoor
LIFE STUDY
Seven of the ten most expensive degrees in the United States are in arts subjects. Black Mountain has given way to manufactories of debt—but art school is at last being reimagined
by
Sam Thorne
AND NOW THE FINAL FRAME The new documentary on Amy Winehouse includes footage in formats we've already forgotten: home videos, camcorder candids. Life and death in the last year before Instagram
by Moira Weigel
INTERVIEWS
ELIZABETH DILLER
August 13, 2015, 10:00 a.m., at the top of the Starrett-Lehigh Building
AGNIESZKA KURANT
August 25, 2015, 4:00 p.m., in a walkup studio in downtown New York
REVIEWS
I. Athens, then. Ancient Greek bronzes come to Malibu in droves.
Rachel Harrison and Matthew Barney are skeptical inheritors of an Attic apotheosis
by Travis Diehl
II. Athens, now. At ground zero of a European catastrophe, the future seems a vacuum. But artists are regaining their footing in a city with no room for dreams
by Marina Fokidis
III. Seventy years ago Japan surrendered. The legacy of empire and militarism has reemerged at a museum on the Izu Peninsula, and in the prime minister's office
by Andrew Maerkle
IV. Sarah Charlesworth and Andreas Gursky looked through their lenses and saw very different worlds. The legacy of the
Pictures Generation and Düsseldorf school in a smartphone age
by Zoë Lescaze
NEGATIVES
Malevich meets the censors.
by Philip Tinari
Collier Schorr and her Calvins.
by Philipp Ekardt
Robert Seydel and her sisters.
by Iona Whittaker
PORTFOLIO
The photographs of
VANDY RATTANA: Cambodia in peace and sorrow
