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Fake heritage for the fake news era

The Art Newspaper -Damien Hirst’s monumental show, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, looks and feels utterly gorgeous. It is an extraordinary assemblage of more than 2,000 objects, carefully raised ...
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Charmed Circle

Antiques Magazine - When Charles Baudelaire spoke of les paradis artificiels he was referring to an internal bliss brought on by opium and hashish. But this notion of an artificial paradise could apply with equ...
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Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster

The New York Times - Prodigy, pathfinder, nonconformist, virtuoso; fabulist, plagiarist, colonialist, pedophile. Are we fated forever to treat Paul Gauguin as an artist trailing a balance sheet behind him, a co...