Art and Photography

Artists

Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City

“Manhattan Island is pretty much shimmer all day long.”

 
By Eileen Myles  September 23, 2021
Art

“Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
Art History

Meet Berthe Weill, the Groundbreaking Female Art Dealer Who Made a Name for Picasso

By Charles Dellheim  September 22, 2021
The Hub

Haruki Murakami makes friends with Americans by wearing his “I Put Ketchup On My Ketchup” shirt.

By Walker Caplan  September 21, 2021
Book Covers

What If My Book’s Cover Design Misrepresents Its Content?

By Saumya Roy  September 21, 2021
Book Covers

An Illustrated Collection of Very Honest Book Covers

By Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber  September 21, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

There is now an enormous portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky in a wheat field in northern Italy.

By Emily Temple  September 20, 2021
Art

On Robert Indiana’s LOVE-Hate Relationship with the Sculpture That Made Him a Star

By Bob Keyes  September 20, 2021
The Hub

Colin Meloy’s novel is becoming a full-length stop-motion movie.

By Walker Caplan  September 15, 2021
Artists in Conversation

Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook

W. Scott Olsen Speaks to Tomasz Trzebiatowski, Joel Meyerowitz, Elysa Voshell, Olga Karlovac, and Phil Penman

By W. Scott Olsen  September 23, 2021
The Hub

Read the 1985 comic strip that inspired the Bechdel Test.

By Walker Caplan  September 13, 2021
9/11

City of Ash: Photographing New York City on the Morning of 9/11

By Rachel Cobb  September 11, 2021
The Hub

Please enjoy these sexy photos of Jean-Paul Belmondo reading sexily.

By Emily Temple  September 7, 2021
Cooking

The Seductive Allure of the Real: Remembering the Humble Origins of Saveur

Dorothy Kalins on Perfecting Food Photography—and Rejecting Overblown Editorial Productions

By Dorothy Kalins  September 7, 2021
Big Table

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

By Big Table  September 7, 2021
The Hub

Alicia Keys is adapting her own song “Girl on Fire” into a book.

By Walker Caplan  September 1, 2021
Memory

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

By Meredith Westgate  September 1, 2021
Big Table

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table  August 31, 2021
Graphic Novels

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

By George Orwell and Frido Nesti  August 26, 2021
Photography

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

By Giles Tremlett  August 25, 2021
Fashion

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

By Alison Hawthorne Deming  August 25, 2021
Publishing

An Unofficial Ranking of Publishing Colophons

Dylan Brown on the Fishes, Kangaroos, and Borzois
That Adorn Our Books

By Dylan Brown  August 24, 2021
Big Table

Cey Adams and Janette Beckman on Being Heard Through Graffiti Art

By Big Table  August 24, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Behind Closed Doors: Documenting the Lives of the Elders in a Time of Plague

By Sari Botton and Alexey Yurenev  August 20, 2021
Ekphrasis

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
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