Pay no attention to these anti-American protests in Cairo
I was in Cairo 48 hours ago: there is no great wave of anti-Americanism right now
In Paris, this photo is illegal
Street photography is against the law in the place in which it was born
Mubarak the undead
Mubarak, Sharon, Arafat: there are new actors on the stage now and the old men have been forgotten
Syria, citizen journalism and the New York Times
The paper of record embraces citizen journalism at last
Mubarak dead. Revolution critical.
The regime has already demonstrated it can survive without Mubarak
Looking at the war in Syria
Unlike Gaddafi, Assad has international allies who will protect him so this is likely to get worse
Mubarak gets life in prison, Egypt gets nothing
Mubarak earned the sentence a hundred times over but it does not feel like justice was done
The ‘unexpected’ China slowdown was entirely foreseeable
Analysts profess surprise at the China slowdown that I saw out the car window in Fujian a year ago
What I saw at the (Occupy May Day) revolution today
The point of today’s large rally: “Memo to the 1%, this is so not over”
Football on the anniversary of the Guernica bombing
The Basques cheer Real Madrid’s defeat by Bayern Munich, but it was the Germans who bombed Guernica
Good coffee arrives in Paris at last
Parisians will one day have the heated partisan debates about coffee they now have about macarons
Did Gaddafi give Sarkozy 50m euros?
France’s dealings in Africa have often been sordid but Libya had seemed a break from this tradition
The China boom is over. That could be good
Will young Chinese respond to slower economic growth by going into the arts? Or politics?
Did Yemen just have a revolution?
Ali Abdullah Saleh is out at last but it looks like the Saleh regime remains
Weegee: self-promotion is his business
An exhibit at the ICP shows Weegee’s New York was gritty in the most unreal possible way
Beirut Art Center at the New Museum in New York
Lebanese artists address how art is changed or destroyed by its display
Typography and world conquest
This exhibition shows the moment colonial expansion brought the Gutenberg revolution to the world
The Egyptian police beat protesters senseless
The video is hard to watch but it shows why freedom in Egypt has not yet been won
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
What to make of the elections in Egypt?
Millions turned out, but will the electoral process prove worthy of the hopes invested in it?
Egypt votes today, but it’s a mess
The elections were badly organized, the military undermined them, but turnout has been significant
Hope or acquiescence in Myanmar?
Aung San Suu Kyi returns to politics, but is she a challenge to the junta or a cover?
The last moment in history to see the tulou
The future is grim for China’s unique, centuries-old communal housing
On the Carsten Höller exhibit at the New Museum
There’s too little to experience for an exhibit called ‘Experience’ but the slide is exhilarating