Art and Photography

Art History

On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

“¿DEFACEMENT?,” Inspired by the 1983 Police Murder of Michael Stewart

 
By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019
Math

From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspective

By Amir Alexander  September 10, 2019
Legends

On the Occasion of Margaret Atwood Day, Here Are Some Photos of Her Over the Years

By Literary Hub  September 10, 2019
Graphic Novels

Graphic Novel: The True Story of Granny Lee Ok-sun

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim  September 9, 2019
New in Nonfiction

Designing Your Grandfather’s Book (When He’s James Thurber)

By Sara T. Sauers  August 30, 2019
The Hub

Rachel Cusk’s house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

By Emily Temple  August 28, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Street Photography

How Arthur Felig Became the Legendary Street Photographer Weegee

By Christopher Bonanos  August 23, 2019
Art Criticism

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

By Dorothy Parker  August 22, 2019
Art History

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

By Sue Roe  August 20, 2019
Smut I Say!

When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

NSFW (If You're a Cop)

By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
Marriage

The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
Literary Criticism

Toward a Theory of the New Weird

By Elvia Wilk  August 5, 2019
Art

Inventing the Village: The Life and Times of the Jane Street Artists

By Cathy Curtis  August 5, 2019
Paintings

People Who Look Like the Paintings They’re Looking At: A Photo Project

Photographer Stefan Draschan Quite Literally Waits for the Perfect Moment

By Stefan Draschan  August 2, 2019
News and Culture

If You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Book

By Literary Hub  August 1, 2019
Photography

If You Can’t Go to a Swimming Pool Right Now, Here Are Some Photographs

By Literary Hub  July 26, 2019
Photography

Borscht Beach: Andy Sweet’s Iconic South Beach Photography

By Literary Hub  July 23, 2019
The Moon

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

The Soviet Space Dogs Who Boldly Went Where They Were Told to Go

By Martin Parr  July 19, 2019
Poem

‘Fatal Light Awareness,’
A Poem by Margaret Atwood

By Margaret Atwood  July 17, 2019
How to...

Daido Moriyama, Legendary Street Photographer, on How to Take a Snapshot

By Daido Moriyama and Takeshi Nakamoto  July 11, 2019
Jane Austen

Documenting Jane Austen Cosplay in the English Countryside

By Ellie Broughton  July 10, 2019
New in Nonfiction

The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

Barbara Bourland on Value and Excess in the Art Market

By Barbara Bourland  July 2, 2019
Art and Writing

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

By Luke Jerod Kummer  July 1, 2019
Art History

In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
Counterculture

Jim Marshall’s Iconic Photos from the 1969 Woodstock Festival

By Michelle Margetts  August 15, 2019
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