There aren’t that many famous Belgians in the world but by rights Harry Gruyaert should be one of them. He’s produced some of my favorite color work outside of William Eggleston yet remains relatively unknown. He is perhaps most recognized for his work in Morocco and a series he began in 1973 to capture the…
Good and bad men are less than they seem. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge People just love the word evil. It is small, powerful and can be liberally applied to basically any situation where severe deviance or misbehavior defies explanation. In a clear, no-nonsense way, the word evil fills the void of what we don't understand about darkness…
Simon Jenkins: To discuss Mandela alongside Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Jesus is barking mad. I bet he's laughing his head off right now
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter known for his low-key atmospheres and his very limited palette of grey tones and mostly desaturated hues used to depict...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Eichmann in Jerusalem By Hannah Arendt - With over 6,800 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Originally appearing in the New Yorker, this controversial firsthand account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann — a German Nazi official — sheds light on the twisted logic that inspired the Holocaust.
Triptych image: Gerhard Katz, photographer unknown, 1926 Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands WHO'S AFRAID OF THE INTELLECTUALS? Perhaps it’s the same people who can’t get enough ...
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“With ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood’ playing as our soundtrack, we pressed on. The smoke got thicker.”
The Swiss artist David Weiss, who has died aged 66, won international recognition for his longstanding creative partnership with Peter Fischli. Click through to see highlights of their witty, deadpan work
Lori Vallow Daybell will be sentenced at Idaho’s Madison County Courthouse in St. Anthony Monday. Will she get life in prison? Will she address the court and Judge Steven Boyce? Can her attorneys appeal? Will Tammy Daybell’s family talk?
The 46-year-old man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena in upstate New York wrote a ransom note with intent to get money, according to an arraignment memorandum released Tuesday.
The typical photo depicting the people surviving war it was not. People widely circulated this haunting March photo of Abu Omar, 70, and his pipe as he listened to his record player from his seat on his broken bed amid the rubble in Aleppo where he insisted on staying. As for the portrait's spread, the photographer Joseph Eid will tell you “this picture touches the soul of the human being.”
Ginger Lane and her six siblings escaped certain death thanks to an act of unimaginable bravery.
The first photo book by Berlin-based photographer Max Zerrahn is Snake Legs, composed of conceptual images taken mostly in Tokyo, Japan. The publication is accompanied...
Views of downtown New York in the 1970s have been conditioned for decades by the decadent glamour of Warhol’s art stars and the CBGBs new- and no- wavers. But there are multiple perspectives from which to see the teeming, crumbling metropolis in the decade that birthed punk and hip hop. One less-than-popular view is that … Continue reading "Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan"
“The cliché of beauty, the cliché of luxury, the cliché of banality”—on ‘In Vogue: The 1990s’ podcast episode 5, Miuccia Prada says ‘basta’ to all that. Listen here.
The banality of male cruelty.
New Menil Collection exhibition reveals the banality of Belgian painter Luc Tuymans.
The Banality of Evil: Daniel and Geo Fuchs photograph Stasi police headquarters, interrogation rooms and prisons.
In Building Stories, cartoonist Chris Ware presents the banality of everyday life as a stunning comic epic
