• Art and Photography

    Art History

    Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

    Mark Polizzotti on the Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Innovative Artistic Movements

     
    By Mark Polizzotti  January 9, 2024
    Painting

    On the Serious Business of 19th-Century Fairy Paintings

    By Jennifer Higgie  January 5, 2024
    Blindness

    How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

    By M. Leona Godin  January 4, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

    By Michelle Wildgen  January 2, 2024
    Photography

    Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes

    By Rebecca Solnit and Meghann Riepenhoff  December 13, 2023
    Best of 2023

    The 139 Best Book Covers of 2023

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Photography

    Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

    By Binh Danh  December 11, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

    By Helen Molesworth  December 11, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Artists

    How the Fire That Destroyed My Paintings Turned Me Into a Writer

    Jonathan Santlofer on Art, Career Changes, and the Joy of Something New

    By Jonathan Santlofer  January 5, 2024
    Art History

    Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

    By Mara Naselli  November 29, 2023
    Children's Literature

    Do You Believe in Magic? On The Timeless Charm of Children’s Books

    By Jane Mount  November 27, 2023
    Literary Journals

    “We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

    By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    It All Began With a Trip to the Bathroom

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Craft

    Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

    By Benjamin Moser  November 20, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars Became Political Signifiers

    By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader  November 13, 2023
    Art History

    Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

    Noah Charney on the Erasure of Women's Revolutionary Contributions to Art History

    By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
    Photography

    What It’s Like Inside Court With Donald Trump

    By Rachel Cobb  November 7, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
    AI

    Can a Computer Write Like Eudora Welty?

    By Randy Sparkman  October 30, 2023
    Graphic Memoir

    Roz Chast, Like All of Us, Has Recurring Dreams

    From Her New Graphic Memoir I Must Be Dreaming

    By Roz Chast  October 25, 2023
    Craft of Globemaking

    On the Artisanal Craft of Making a Globe

    By Peter Bellerby  October 23, 2023
    Art and Life

    Life as a Art Conservator: Learning to Be Grateful for Failure

    By Rosa Lowinger  October 20, 2023
    Art and Life

    Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

    By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore  November 30, 2023
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