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Art and Photography

Photography

Pico Iyer on the Timelessly Intimate Images of Norwegian Photographer Tom Sandberg

“Objects have lives, and the divisions we draw between animate and inanimate are a human-made creation.”

 
By Pico Iyer  November 30, 2022
Art Forgery

How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld

By Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi  November 22, 2022
Diaries

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

By Cullen Murphy  November 21, 2022
Keen On

Why Good Photography Should Get Underneath Our Skin and Assault Us

By Keen On  November 21, 2022
Keen On

What Photographers Should Learn From Vermeer and Other 17th-Century Dutch Artists

By Keen On  November 18, 2022
Theater

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

By Jack O'Brien  November 16, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Illustrations

Overhead at Literary Speed Dating: Scenes from the Center for Fiction

By Kathleen Radigan  November 14, 2022
Children's Literature

Lynn Caponera on the Wild and Wonderful Legacy of Maurice Sendak

By Lynn Caponera  November 3, 2022
Photography

Accumulated Memory: Ken Burns on the Intersection of Individual Intimacy and National Narrative

By Ken Burns  November 2, 2022
Painting

Zelda Fitzgerald: Writer, Muse, and… Painter?

Eleanor Lanahan on Discovering Her Grandmother’s Hidden Artistic Talents

By Eleanor Lanahan  November 23, 2022
Memoir

“Giacometti Slept with the Lights On…” And Other Encounters with Mid-Century Art Stars

By Barbara Chase-Riboud  October 31, 2022
Climate Change

Where Art Meets Organizing: Bill McKibben on the Power of Climate Crisis Posters

By Bill McKibben  October 27, 2022
Book Covers

The Nine Lives of a Cat (Book Cover)

By Bob Eckstein  October 26, 2022
The Renaissance

How The Renaissance Was Defined and Re-Defined

Joseph Luzzi on the Etymological and Ideological Underpinnings of One of the World's Most Important Cultural Movements

By Joseph Luzzi  October 26, 2022
Dance

How Martha Graham Was Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

By Neil Baldwin  October 25, 2022
The Hub

See the gorgeous 18th century tarot deck used by the first professional tarot reader.

By Emily Temple  October 21, 2022
Cartoons

Zoology and Cartoons: Will McPhail on Drawing Funny Animals

By Will McPhail  October 19, 2022
Dance

How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance

Rupert Christiansen on the Modernization of Ballet

By Rupert Christiansen  October 19, 2022
Illustration

Maira Kalman’s Illustrations of Women Holding Things

By Maira Kalman  October 18, 2022
Monuments

How Monuments Help Us Remember—Or Not Remember—the Past

By Andrew Shanken  October 18, 2022
Cheese

On the Culinary and Artistic History of Cheese

By Noëlle Janaczewska  October 17, 2022
Love Stories

The Roiling Mess: Mairead Small Staid on Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, and Love Stories

“Want spins like a pendant at the end of a chain, now a noun, now a verb.”

By Mairead Small Staid  October 14, 2022
Painters

The Waning Years of Edward Hopper

By Richard Lacayo  October 13, 2022
Illustration

The Trailblazing Illustrator and Mountaineer Who Explored the Wild North

By Pamela Henson  October 12, 2022
So Many Damn Books

Kate Beaton on the Grueling Task of Writing a Picture Book and Her New Memoir

By So Many Damn Books  November 1, 2022
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