An overlooked episode of vision's history -- Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address -- Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight -- The crying image: the ...

But the reason mere presence with another person is such a challenge to our composure is because of what’s absent in such an exercise: words. I’ve often noticed that the moment words stop in a ...

For three months in the spring of 2010, New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted an event called The Artist is Present, during which performance artist Marina Abramovic sat silently in a chair for ...