An Aesthetic Crisis: Visual art moves from modernism to postmodernism to what? From Bomb, an essay on the cool kids of the Russian avant-garde. On its 90th anniversary, Bauhaus remains the most imperialistic of all design movements. "Hitler considered himself an artistic genius": An interview with Birgit Schwarz, author of Delusions of Genius: Hitler and Art. Until recently, curators and collectors in the West were embarrassed by Orientalist art; Carol Kino considers one small museum that never blushed. From N1BR, a review of Lawrence Rothfield's The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (and more) and James Cuno's Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities. Is Greece Losing its Elgin Marbles? The battle between antiquities-loving and antiquities-producing countries continues. Leave the past behind: The campaigns to restore lost architectural gems signify a malaise in British culture. Leave it to the French to resuscitate Tarzan only to stick him in a semiotic jungle. Terminal Hipness: Jed Pearl on what New York's recent exhibitions can tell us about the art world’s malaise. The art of graffiti: you either see it or you don't; Evan Roth of the Graffiti Research Lab drags us out of that tired debate and shows us the science of tagging.
