
Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza
Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip

Peter Schjeldahl wanders blind through the Met’s new Islamic wing
He sees only difference where he ought to be able to see centuries of cultural exchange

There’s a soixante-huitard feel to these Occupy protests
Will Zuccotti Park be the Blvd Saint-Michel of our era? These posters suggest a similar spirit

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

What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
Arab arts and political radicals in London this weekend
And there are cool Arab arts of all sorts in London this summer

Samandal comic book, debut issue, 2008, Beirut, Lebanon
An eclectic mix of graphic styles and languages that captures the cultural mixed-up-ness of Beirut

Seeing the Ryan Trecartin exhibit at PS1
His tedious stories replicate like fractals in a surfeit of superficially distinct artistic choices

Moviebarcodes reveal the mood of a film at a glance
And who knew Stanley Kubrick used color the way Walt Disney did?

Diabolik fumetto ‘Il Morto che Ritorna’, Italy, 1995
Italian comic books await a Quentin Tarantino to make them cool again

The Times’ Roberta Smith explains Ryan Trecartin’s art
Roberta Smith at least makes a case for Trecartin’s merits, unlike Peter Schjeldahl

Is artist Ryan Trecartin any good? Who can tell?
New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl claims he’s great but doesn’t say why

How my journey to Beirut ended up on an art gallery wall
I had become a migratory subject for the artist Walead Beshty

An art opening at Experimenta in Hong Kong
Unusually for Hong Kong, something unexpected might happen

Watching Dante in 3-D in a cathedral, and other New York transgressions
For a night, the New Museum turns all of Nolita into a video art space

What happens when Chinese street artists draw a foreigner’s portrait
Street artists in China draw my portrait, though not well