According to Eko Eshun, curator of The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure that was shown in London and Philadelphia during 2024, we are currently witnessing
En septembre dernier, le centre d’exposition EXPRESSION a entamé une importante étape de son éventuelle transformation en Musée d’art et société (MAS). Avant de prendre sa retraite en 2025, Marcel Blouin, son directeur
Over ten years ago, ESPACE art actuel (formerly Espace sculpture, founded in 1987) took up the challenge of reassessing its critical reflection on the visual arts, which focused primarily on the field of spatiality. The
In its most simple definition, mourning is an affective state of feeling sorrow over the loss, absence or death of someone. Yet it can also be a difficult ordeal to go through when it marks
Thanks to their song, if not their call, we hear birds more often than we see them. They attract our ear more than our eye and, time and again, despite our desire, we can never
In his novel Que notre joie demeure (Héliotrope, 2022), Kevin Lambert describes “starchitects” in the world of globalized capital – architects who owe their prestige to fabulous projects that rarely reflect social reality. Lambert’s main
Virtual reality scientists are now developing an interface that can release different smells associated with the images that the VR headset transmits. After inconclusive attempts to present films with odours in the 1950s, currently proposed
In his book Penser la pornographie (PUF, 2003), philosopher Ruwen Ogien (1947–2017) rejects the arguments of pornophobes, both conservative and progressive alike. While some consider pornography as a threat to the nuclear family and the
In the late 1990s, psychologist and sociologist Judy Singer1 developed the notion of neurodiversity, which was associated first with autism and advocacy for the rights of people with autism, then
In his posthumous book Confessions of the Flesh (Pantheon Books, 2021), Michel Foucault (1926–1984) analyzes how early Christianity considered sexuality. This fourth instalment on the sexualized body follows the volumes published in his lifetime—The Will
In an essay titled “Der Erzhäler,” translated into English as “The Storyteller,” philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) offers a stunning proposal concerning experience and wisdom. Taking a work by Russian storyteller Nicolai Leskov (1831–1895) as an