There are ways in which Belgian painter Luc Tuymans very much resembles Julian Assange, the embattled, secretive honcho of WikiLeaks. Both men channel a deep distrust of political hierarchies and official truths into practices intended to make transparent the opaque machinations of power. Both figures boast an engagement with the modern media that defines their respective confrontations with what they call the established order. And both personalities have been known to employ—usually to the detriment of a larger cause—a tetchy, high-handed manner cultivated to undercut skeptics unconvinced by the righteousness... More >>>