The dawning of a new year is always an occasion for reflection on one's place in the world, and resolutions to do better in the coming cycle. This year, because of the uncannily hideous and destabilizing nature of 2016, these contemplations are a heavy lift...
On a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from a man in pajamas called “Honey Bear” and wrote down his pseudonym for the night: “Presence.” Harris had just arrived at Unplug SF, a “digital detox...
As the art industry undergoes its messy transition into the globalized digital era, a handful of self-styled change agents have emerged with visions of how to best leverage and guide this period of upheaval. None of them have been as polarizing as the art collector,...
Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large for 'the magazine' NYT and a fellow at New America Prologue: You Are What You Have Read Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
Daiga Rudzāte spoke with German art collector Harald Falckenberg in Hamburg about art as a historical document and the relationship between freedom and collecting. Harald Falckenberg of Germany is looked upon as one of the most influential people in the world of international contemporary art collecting....
Stephen Mayes is often described as a “futurist” and broadcast, taught and written extensively about the ethics and practice of photography. In the future, there will be no such thing as a "straight photograph". It’s time to stop talking about photography. It’s not that photography is dead as...
There are few in the art world that see more, write more, or speak to more artists than Serpentine Galleries co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. And, having literally written the book on curating, there are few better positioned to see what shape art will take in...
Brendan O'Neill is editor of Spiked Online. Identity politics and the death of the individual Nothing speaks more profoundly to the crisis of character than the phrase, ‘I identify as…’. In the past, individuals were. ‘I am a builder.’ ‘I am a mother.’ ‘I am a Jew.’...
Antonio Masi does reasonably well as an artist, exhibiting and selling his paintings around the country, even abroad. If you had gone to the recent "American Masters" exhibition at New York's Salmagundi Club (October 5-23), you would have seen three of the Garden City, Long...
Adam Scheffer is president of the Art Dealers Association of America, and partner and sales director at Cheim & Read. It’s a fascinating time to run a gallery. More than ever it’s a time for us to innovate, to be extremely forward thinking and open-minded. Those...
