The Morning Desk
Essays, conversations and field notes from the bureau — on the artists, exhibitions and ideas we keep returning to.
Opening the desk…
Tan Mu’s black hole paintings
Contemporary painter Tan Mu’s painting Powehi (2022) of the Event Horizon Telescope’s 2019 image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy known as Messier 87, is small, just 24 x 36 inches, but its impact is visceral.