Essays
McDermott and McGough
In 1990, somewhere between Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I discovered time machine.
An Iconography of Escape
The Host was displayed in a shimmering monstrance and was not to the touched by sinners like myself.
Berlin in Two Januaries
I have been to Berlin twice. On both occasions I walked around, took pictures, thought dark things.
Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz is an artist who remains motivated by wonder and inexorably drawn toward ambiguity
Through the Looking Glass
At ten billion times more sensitive than the human eye, the Hubble’s observational power is astonishing.
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum
As if stuck in amber, the civil rights martyrs and saints float in an almost religious glow
Photography and Monumentality
Is it the truth or the falsehood of a society that one learns from its monuments?
Larry Sultan
I want to be with those who know secret things, or left alone. Rilke
Hide / Seek
A Conversation with Calla Thompson and Jaimes Mayhew at the National Portrait Gallery
