A historic find on the Bowery
A friend may have found the 18th C Bull’s Head Tavern under a construction site on the Bowery
Portrait of a boy, Paris, early-20th C
A magnificent portrait found in Paris leads to two legendary photographers
Prayer of Fear by Mosireen
The media collective Mosireen perfectly captures the current moment in Egypt
Robin Wright carves up the Middle East
Wright is wrong and her analysis risks looking prescriptive rather than descriptive
Shooting an elephant at MoMA
Douglas Gordon’s “Play Dead; Real Time” is terrific, even the way MoMA has installed it
The funniest person I know
My sister Kali is a riot and you’ll soon see why on the Disney show “Liv and Maddie”
Why James Turrell is perfect for the Guggenheim
Turrell turns Wright’s building — already a work of art — into a new and different work of art
My Bhutan video for Hermès
Moments from my journey for Hermès to the best-preserved corner of the Himalayas
Was the coup in Egypt even necessary?
Morsi might have been forced from power anyway, but the military short circuited that
Draft articles of impeachment for Morsi now
Even elected leaders can lose their legitimacy; Egypt needs a legal statement to that effect
Sanity on immigration policy, near at last
Republicans still hate Hispanic cultural influence but they’re relenting on immigration policy
Video drones over Taksim Square in Istanbul
When the police control the streets, video drones can see what they are up to
Where you can ignore the US ambassador
What presidential donors have to give to get a vacation spot ambassadorship
Egypt Independent is strangled in its crib
Independent journalism is a bad business everywhere but in Egypt politics makes it worse
Indian studio portraits, 20th century
Trolling the markets of Bombay and Delhi for compelling portraits of ordinary citizens
My exhibit at the Hermès gallery in Bombay
The response was even better than I could have hoped at Bombay’s first-ever photography festival
How great is India’s magazine The Caravan?
Long form reportage, ruthlessly edited, about India and elsewhere. Now you know
An upcoming exhibit of my photographs in Mumbai, India
Prints and an unusual still/motion projection about how urban space around the world is inhabited
My new Hermès article is now out
I travel to French Basque country for the latest in the series I write and photograph for Hermès
The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on
Israel, Prisoner X, and widely known secrets
Israeli denials about the anonymous prisoner who committed ‘suicide’ confirm how valuable he was
The Aldo Moro assassination, Reggio-Emilia, Italy, 1978
A prized book of Italian newspapers and a dead terrorist; is there a connection?
The Atlantic tries to show how genius happens
To the systems minded, no nitty is too gritty when it explains how things work