The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home

The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home

The ingenious answer was proposed by an art-engineering firm called SMACH. The company’s experts realized that, if the tapestry could not be rotated and stored, perhaps it could be stored and then rotated. They designed an object that resembles a huge, many-hinged ruler: a zigzag support that folds up, like a Japanese screen, into a…

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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans

The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans

A man buys a drawing. A terrible friction materializes between the two of them, the man and the drawing, the latter of which might have been a vision on paper of existence on another plane—a flat botanical realm, rainbow-bright, governed by floating, expressionless heads. The symmetry, the sense of exact echoing across a central median,…

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The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”

The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”

Na’s solution to this problem is speed: the faster he can keep his aliens moving—Va’migere, alas, is not alone—the less likely we are to scrutinize the malevolent jumble of pixels they are. The film’s first chase is a tour de force of kinetic delirium: Sung-ae (Hoyeon), a brave junior cop, drives Bum-seok through the streets…

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Reporting the Big World

Reporting the Big World

Ascherson may not have known it, but he was establishing the pattern of his career, and indeed his life: an engagement with the world driven by conscience and curiosity, and a relentless desire to get it all down on paper, in one form or another. Ascherson has too often thrived as a straight reporter to…

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Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair

Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair

Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. In practice, this worked for a time. Walking at a motivated but not harried pace, I could reach earshot of the opposite stage within six minutes or so—a number that…

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“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows

“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows

All four are manifestly bourgeois, flashing their cash from the moment they arrive at the village where they are to stay. They blusteringly order a bedraggled local man named Lakha to accompany and serve them. (“Ask if he can come with us,” Sanjoy says to Ashim in English, certain that Lakha won’t understand.) They arrive…

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From the Archive: Ronaldus Shamask and Fashion ‘Simplexity’

From the Archive: Ronaldus Shamask and Fashion ‘Simplexity’

Color in fashion is an emotional state of being, especially as summer heats up. The color that delivers cool and ease has always been pristine white in crisp linens or cotton. Like Zoran, who was highlighted in last week’s entry, Ronaldus Shamask also created standout collections in summer’s favorite color and textiles during the 1980s.…

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