Culture

I’ve reported on artists facing censorship or self-censorship in Russia, Turkey and Iran, visited Leo Tolstoy’s Yasnaya Polyana, written on restorers preserving the museum at Auschwitz, ideological battles over a museum in Poland dedicated to World War II, an opera calling out anti-Semitism in Hungary and artists capturing the Maidan Square uprising in Ukraine. I’ve also interviewed the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, artist Marina Abramovic, German director Maren Ade and directors influenced by the films of Chantal Akerman, as well as about crowd control at Europe’s museums, the Middle Eastern magazine Bidoun, the art scenes of Beirut and Brussels, the Venice Biennale and Dokumenta when it was held in Athens. For The Atlantic, I’ve written on how #MeToo has affected the Nobel Prizes and the debut of DAU, an epic thought-experiment film set in the Soviet Union.