ESSAYS
THE BEAT OF DISSENT
No city has a music scene like Luanda, where rappers risk jail to rhyme against the regime. Up all night in the most expensive city on earth
by Chloé Buire
CINDERBLOCKS
Reconstruction is war by other means. Even before the horrific bombardment of Syria's largest city, the battle to control its future had already begun
by Frederick Deknatel
THEIR ALABASTER CHAMBERS
The new film
A Quiet Passion is as gem-like as any verse by Emily Dickinson. But like all of Terence Davies' movies, it owes more to painting than poetry
by Daniel Fairfax
INTERVIEWS
MATTHEW BARNEY
November 29, 2016, 11:00 a.m., in the artist's studio in Long Island City, New York
MA YANSONG
November 10, 2016, 10:00 a.m., in a hotel lobby near Canal Street, New York
REVIEWS
I. Has any aesthetic endeavor failed as totally as “
political art”? And, against the nightmare presidency to come, are we just going to pull out the culture war playbook again?
by Allison Hewitt Ward
II. The world needs more just representations, but art takes more. An eminence of Chicago puts blackness at the center of the western tradition—and shows a younger generation how it's done
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
III. Your last in fight meal was probably not served on dishes as fine as Lufthansa's old set. A German design school pre figured today's reliance on algorithms and metrics, as evoked in a new London museum
by Ben Eastham
IV. Americans got so excited by the Snapchat dog-ears filter; Japanese kids had that technology in the 90s. In Tokyo, selfie culture has a long history, one photographers ignore at their peril
by Andrew Maerkle
PORTFOLIO
The art of ANA VAZ: cheetahs and colonies
NEGATIVES
Black history after a black presidency
The epistemology of Breitbart
Vox clamantis in deserto
How to breathe in the Trumpocene
Goose-stepping with Taylor Swift
