• Art and Photography

    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2023
    Design

    A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

    By Edwin Heathcote  May 31, 2023
    The Hub

    Edward Carey gives us a preview of the illustrations in his next novel, Edith Holler.

    By Edward Carey  May 25, 2023
    Art and Life

    How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of Dykette

    By Jenny Fran Davis  May 24, 2023
    Art History

    On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

    By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers of April

    By Emily Temple  April 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

    By Lee Durkee  April 17, 2023
    Literary History

    Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

    By Benjamin Balint  April 11, 2023
    Art History

    After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

    By Jeannie Marshall  April 6, 2023
    Art Criticism

    How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

    By Will Gompertz  April 5, 2023
    Trees

    Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

    By Katie Holten  April 4, 2023
    Behind the Book Cover

    “Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

    By Jason Booher  March 29, 2023
    Children's Lit

    On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

    By Leonard S. Marcus  March 29, 2023
    Keen On

    Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on How Art Improves Individual and Communal Health

    By Keen On  March 24, 2023
    Science!

    Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

    By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross  March 22, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Tiffany Shlain on the History of Feminism, Tree Rings, and “Dendrofemonology”

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Grief

    Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

    By Patrick Bringley  March 16, 2023
    The Renaissance

    Sorry Michelangelo, Da Vinci Was the True Master of the Human Form in Art

    By Charles Freeman  February 27, 2023
    Super Heroes

    How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

    By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
    Art

    Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

    By A. Natasha Joukovsky  February 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Damian Dibben on the Importance of Color in Art, and Why We Should All Visit Venice at Least Once

    By Keen On  February 10, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of January

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Zaria Ware on the Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

    By Keen On  January 27, 2023
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
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