Why should a media outlet run an art gallery?
Journalism and art share an obsession: reality.
While one of them loses sleep over facts, concision, and urgency, the other opens up the possibility of inhabiting a different sense of time. Art allows us the luxury of doubt — of asking ourselves how we want to live in the world. If a news outlet exists to give us the tools to understand what’s happening, art reminds us that understanding often comes from detours and emotion. From what slips........
