Art and Photography

The Longest Year: 2020+

Land of Smoke and Fire: Documenting California’s Endless Season of Heat

Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham, for The Longest Year: 2020+ Project

 
By Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham  July 21, 2021
The Hub

A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
Photography

Startlement and Stillness: David Searcy on Photography

By David Searcy  July 15, 2021
The History of Literature

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

By History of Literature  July 12, 2021
Mental health

How Crafting Got Me Through the Worst 700 Days of My Life

By Kelly Williams Brown  July 9, 2021
The Hub

A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.

By Walker Caplan  July 8, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Art

How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

By Paul Legault  July 7, 2021
Comics

The Century of Captain America: A Brief History of a Beloved Comic

By Roy Thomas  July 2, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

The Hard Intimacies of COVID-19: Documenting a Pandemic Year

By Isadora Kosofsky and Suzanne Koven  July 1, 2021
Graphic Novels

Kristen Radtke: How Do You Turn a Graphic Novel Into a Compelling Audiobook?

The Author of Seek You on Recreating the Intimacy of Images With Voice

By Kristen Radtke  July 16, 2021
The Internet

The Rise of the Crypto Writer? On What Literary NFTs Might Mean for the Book World

By Walker Caplan  June 25, 2021
Cartoons

Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

By Charles Johnson  June 24, 2021
The Hub

Exclusive cover reveal: Melissa Febos’s craft-book-meets-memoir, Body Work.

By Literary Hub  June 21, 2021
Graphic Memoir

How the Legacy of Slavery Warps the World for Black Women

From Rebecca Hall’s Graphic Memoir Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez  June 18, 2021
Museums

Money Is Not Neutral: On Nan Goldin’s Powerful Protest Against the Sacklers

By Laura Raicovich  June 17, 2021
Big Table

Mary Gabriel on Expanding the Story of Mid-Century
American Art

By Big Table  June 16, 2021
Surfing

What The Endless Summer Gets Right—and Wrong—About African Surf Culture

By Kunyalala Ndlovu  June 15, 2021
Art

Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals

Thomas J. Lax Considers the Artist's Emphasis on Convening

By Thomas J. Lax  June 11, 2021
The Hub

On Maurice Sendak’s birthday, take a look at some of his rare drawings.

By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
The Hub

Prepare your trumpets: This year’s Venice Biennale is Leonora Carrington-themed.

By Emily Temple  June 9, 2021
The Hub

Take a look at this bizarrely beautiful library inspired by the human brain.

By Walker Caplan  June 7, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

Mitchell S. Jackson on the Photography of Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, for The Longest Year: 2020+

By Mitchell S. Jackson and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell  June 4, 2021
Museums

A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

By András Szántó  June 4, 2021
Historical Fiction

The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

By Lorenza Pieri  June 3, 2021
Protest

Hope, Joy and Rage: One Year Ago at Occupy City Hall

By Angela Rose Brussel  June 28, 2021
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