The works of female painters were consistently undervalued by auction houses – but that’s all changing
By Ian Marcus Corbin
Are doctors the moral arbiters of Blue State life — and death?
By Ian Marcus Corbin
The furore around the Teeth author’s latest short story shows the risk of keeping your politics slightly to yourself.
By Ian Marcus Corbin
The Canadian rapper’s response to Pusha-T on his new album is nimble and reasonable.
By Ian Marcus Corbin
It’s almost impossible to imagine the President praising a book or a person or an idea, or really anything, that hasn’t been approved by a lot of people.
By Ian Marcus Corbin
The president may be averse to the arts, but he’s hardly shaking the republic to its core.
By Ian Marcus Corbin
You’ve probably heard that we’re in a boom time for the art business, breaking sales records as fast as we can make them. This might seem strange, in a time of such political uncertainty, but look closer: the art world is a fascinating canary in our cultural/social/economic coal mine, an odd liminal zone where profound […]
By Ian Marcus Corbin
By ceasing its promotion of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music, Spotify aims to show its users that they are headed towards the moral promised land.
By Ian Marcus Corbin
If Trump is rotten from the core, what the hell does that say about the popular culture we’ve all let flourish in the past few decades?
By Ian Marcus Corbin