Dossier
Las Vegas: Still Learning?
As the entertainment capital struggles to pioneer a new arts & culture landscape, the shape of the “future city” begins to take form—and it looks like a “strip.”
Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum
Europe’s museums turn to institutional rebrands and infusions of contemporary art to update their imperial-era collections —but are these efforts enough?
Viva Vienna
Young gallerists inject Austria’s primary city with cultural capital, fresh program strategies, and plenty of teamwork.
Cathedrals
Tracking the legacy of architect Paul R. Williams, a photographer finds Las Vegas’ modernist sanctuaries.
Flow Through: Bahar Yürükoğlu
Processing the politics of “a timeless, borderless place,” an artist proposes a new mythology.
The Good Soil: Michael John Whelan
Photographing the Global Seed Vault, an artist experiences “a sobering feeling of inescapability” at the junction of geological past and humanity’s future physical fragility.
Four Edges of Pryamiden: Ieva Epnere
A woman in a blue dress “symbolizes the Russian ‘dream’ of an ideal state or place on earth.”
Chrysanthi Koumianaki
An artist’s existentialist account of Greek economics, via Paris May 1968.
Drachmas
In 1970s Athens, a Palestinian family vacation, and an Arab film and TV production boom.
The School of Athens
A call for a departure from the trope of the Greek capital as “southern experiment” in creative sustainability.