When the BBC commissioned British artist Nathaniel Mellors to create a work of art for its television series "The Seven Ages of Britain," it was in for a surprise. Far from presenting recognizably v…
In the Iberian converso literary tradition, novels were written in code by authors who had converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, and could be read from multiple points of…
Though best known for his perfectly hand-folded paper sculptures, Stefano Arienti recently displayed the mature work of an artist who is impressively dexterous in seemingly any medium. Obsessiveness c…
Greed may be out of fashion these days, but it remains very much on the mind of Francesco Vezzoli. Demure and self-effacing, Vezzoli claims to live out of a suitcase in Milan, and would seem to be far…