• Art and Photography

    The Craft of Writing

    Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

    “Home, like history, is at once both expansive and incomplete, a necessary mystery.”

     
    By Beowulf Sheehan  December 6, 2024
    Cartoons

    A Century of Restlessness: What It Means To Be A New Yorker Cartoonist

    By Michael Maslin  November 21, 2024
    Religion

    Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

    By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
    Theater

    How Stephen Sondheim Brought Neo-Impressionism to the Stage

    By Richard Schoch  November 19, 2024
    Black History

    Still Fighting For Liberty and Justice For All: A Visual History of Black America

    By LaGarrett King  November 18, 2024
    Protest Art

    A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

    By Jen Benka  November 13, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Activism

    But Can It Change Anything? What Artists and Social Movements Can Learn From Each Other

    By Amber Massie-Blomfield  November 7, 2024
    Basketball

    An Eye On the Court: Chronicling 40 Years of NBA Photography

    By Dave McMenamin  November 5, 2024
    Musicians

    How a Young Michael Stipe Found Creative Camaraderie in Art School

    By Peter Ames Carlin  November 5, 2024
    Cultural History

    Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

    Glenn Adamson on the Rise and Fall of Europe’s Early 20th-Century Artistic Avant-Garde

    By Glenn Adamson  December 6, 2024
    Influences

    Channeling Curiosity Into Language: How a Diverse Array of Influences Feeds Poetic Development

    By Mónica de la Torre  October 29, 2024
    Art History

    The Surprising Power of Piet Mondrian’s Lesser-Known Early Paintings

    By Nicholas Fox Weber  October 25, 2024
    Comics

    Music, Image, and Language: Christopher Forgues Shares the Elements of His Creative Process

    By Rob Goyanes  October 21, 2024
    Economics

    The Real Tomb Raiders: How Freeports Enabled International Art Theft

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Medici Affair, the History of Free Trade Zones, and the Mysteries of the Geneva Freeport

    By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  October 9, 2024
    Folklore

    Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

    By Ben Edge  October 9, 2024
    The Hub

    The house from Practical Magic has inspired an architectural design trend.

    By Brittany Allen  October 4, 2024
    Video Games

    Mundane Preaching: On the Shortfalls of “Awareness Raising” Video Games

    By Marijam Did  October 4, 2024
    Art History

    What the Supreme Court Can Learn From a 14th-Century Italian City-State

    Liesl Schillinger on the Cautionary Art—and Good Governance—of Siena’s “Golden Age”

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 3, 2024
    The Hub

    Attention Austen fans: Now you can have tea with Lizzy Bennet, IRL.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    The Hub

    Jhumpa Lahiri refused an award for artistic integrity from a museum that fired staff over kaffiyehs.

    By Brittany Allen  September 27, 2024
    Art History

    Painting Emotion: How Claude Monet Turned His Inner Life Into Art

    By Jackie Wullschläger  September 25, 2024
    Photography

    How Japanese Female Photographers Channeled Exclusion Into Experimentation

    Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin and Takeuchi Mariko on Artistic Practice Under Systemic Patriarchy

    By Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin and Takeuchi Mariko  September 20, 2024
    Book Covers

    Experiments With ChatGPT: Why Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Human Creativity

    By Linda Huang  September 20, 2024
    The Hub

    Am I supposed to read all this? On spending time with Jenny Holzer’s word art.

    By Brittany Allen  September 17, 2024
    On Grief

    Capturing Moments of Growth and Loss: Photography as an Excavation of the Self

    By Rosalind Fox Solomon  November 4, 2024
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