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, ...

In New York City, museumgoing can be a kind of wandering. The sheer bulk of work, old and new, quickly deflates any idea of “taking it all in”—witness tourists at the Met studiously snapping iPad ...

NEW YORK — It isn’t only encouraged to walk aimlessly from one artwork to another, stopping only by whichever piece catches one’s eye — it’s the idea behind “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter ...

Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish intellectual born in Berlin in 1892 to wealthy parents. He died by his own hand in September 1940 while fleeing the Nazis. Following his death, his writing was ...

“Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, is now one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as ...

James Welling, “Morgan Great Hall” (2014), inkjet print, 21 x 31.5 in, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, purchased through a gift from Nancy D. Grover in honor of Robinson A. Grover ...

Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The German-Jewish essayist and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin remains a fascinating puzzle for readers and critics ...

Benjamin makes an intelligent and eloquent case against the poverty of student life under capitalism in this early essay, written more than fifty… ...