What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!
Beirut Art Center at the New Museum in New York
Lebanese artists address how art is changed or destroyed by its display
Finally, propaganda I can believe in
The UK Foreign Office makes a stout defense of multiculturalism, just in time for the Olympics
Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
The Libya my family knew in the 1960s
These archival videos make Libya look more modern than it was but many who knew it then loved it
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?
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
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
A look inside Japan’s massive earthquake
Terrifying video footage of a Japanese supermarket as the earthquake hit
What the graffiti artist Blu should really be famous for
The graffiti artist Blu is more amazing than the canceled mural he was doing for MOCA in LA
From Egypt with love
If you’ve spent time in Egypt, the human warmth of this video will be familiar; if you haven’t, go