Discover artworks through edited selections and ways of looking.
This week’s selection · 01After nightfall,
After nightfall,
how do we see one another?
From a street corner in Arles to a silent New York café: four encounters with city light and the distances it cannot reach.
Enter this night_1888.jpg)
02
A HANDSCROLL UNFOLDS
Begin with Chinese painting
Let time move forward inside a single painting.
Landscapes, figures, and cities can all be seen by wandering through them.
03
THREE WAYS OF SEEING
Why do we keep looking at the sea?
The sea returns a sense of scale.
Sometimes it is awe; sometimes, distance.
04
A QUIETER ROOM
On silence
Some images contain almost no action.
Yet time seems to stay longer inside them.
