Google Maps finally does a better job hiding Tel Aviv
Israel’s many satellite image “parks” change their colors
Diabolik fumetto ‘Il Morto che Ritorna’, Italy, 1995
Italian comic books await a Quentin Tarantino to make them cool again
More evidence the China building boom is ending
But here are the astounding numbers on what they’ve built
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
Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic
All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history
Chocolat Pupier Asian cultures album, France, 1936
A 1936 collectible album for children, embedded with the politics of its age
Philippe Petit’s new act and a Keralan puppeteer
A Keralan puppeteer, the last known practitioner of her art, performs a high wire act of her own
Macau’s architectural legacy
A schizophrenic policy of sacrificing new land to preserve old buildings
The unlikely face of hip-hop
Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop explored the boundaries of sound
‘Sheikh’: a spelling manifesto
Finally, one Middle East conflict that can be settled: it’s not pronounced like ‘chic’
President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally leaves Yemen
It is a shame for Saleh, and Yemen, that it took violence to get him out
Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons
Letter from Japan the day WWII ended
My grandfather’s firsthand account of the destruction of Japanese cities
Visiting the land of ethnic cleansing
The triumph of Sarajevo: cosmopolitanism survives the nativists’ war
Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?
Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice
French diary from WWII
The cramped hand suggests a shortage of paper, the mysterious letters and numbers hint at a code
Salvador Allende and ‘The Battle of Chile’
‘The Battle of Chile’ is one of the greatest records of a revolutionary political moment ever filmed
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
On Obama’s second big Middle East speech
There has been a revolution in the Arab world but, thus far, no revolution in American thinking
You are not alone
Artist Corinne Vionnet captures the banality of seemingly unique travel experiences