The task of a critic has to do with the nature of the knowledge we call art.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”