As we at ARTnews were putting this issue together, I kept returning to the story of Ernest Hemingway and The Farm. Hemingway bought Joan Miró’s painting of that title—an exacting inventory of…
‘Ruins have been ruined,” proclaimed an early April headline in the New York Times. The Times had sent a photographer to Palmyra, the 2,000-year-old archaeological site in Syria that had…
In an age when more than 880 billion photographs are taken each year—with more than 1.8 billion uploaded to the Internet every day—how can museums keep up? That is a question now facing the Internatio…