Walter Benjamin’s life, to use the kind of metaphor he was so fond of, was not unlike the Parisian arcades, those covered ...

R.I.P., Walter Benjamin, you (probably) would have hated the new iPad. A viral ad for the “thinnest product [Apple] ever created” shows an industrial hydraulic press squishing musical instruments, ...

It was the salute seen around the world — at least if the world and the internet, as it increasingly seems, have merged and become one. I am referring, of course, to the hand gesture made by Elon Musk ...

BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program present a talk with cultural theorist, University of Chicago professor, and Honors parent Malynne Sternstein. Sternstein will reconsider the ...

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 Sternstein will be arguing, among other things, that Surrealism as a movement disappointed Benjamin in its potential to turn into kitsch and thus serve ...