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Art and Photography

Science!

Hitting the the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on the Workings of Neuroaesthetics

 
By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross  March 22, 2023
Keen On

Tiffany Shlain on the History of Feminism, Tree Rings, and “Dendrofemonology”

By Keen On  March 20, 2023
Grief

Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

By Patrick Bringley  March 16, 2023
The Renaissance

Sorry Michelangelo, Da Vinci Was the True Master of the Human Form in Art

By Charles Freeman  February 27, 2023
Super Heroes

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
Art

Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

By A. Natasha Joukovsky  February 16, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

Damian Dibben on the Importance of Color in Art, and Why We Should All Visit Venice at Least Once

By Keen On  February 10, 2023
Book Covers

The 11 Best Book Covers of January

By Emily Temple  January 31, 2023
Keen On

Zaria Ware on the Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

By Keen On  January 27, 2023
Muses

When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

Sophie Haydock Recommends Naomi Wood, Elizabeth Lowry, and More

By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
Children's Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

By Hervé Tullet  December 21, 2022
Artists

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

By Paul Fisher  December 19, 2022
Best of 2022

The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022

By Emily Temple  December 13, 2022
Art and Life

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“I have tried existing, and I do not like it. I would like to give it up.”

By Darcey Steinke  December 7, 2022
Artists

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

By Erica Hannickel  December 6, 2022
The Hub

Beowulf Sheehan on what it was like to photograph Cormac McCarthy.

By Beowulf Sheehan  December 1, 2022
Photography

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

By Pico Iyer  November 30, 2022
Painting

Zelda Fitzgerald: Writer, Muse, and… Painter?

Eleanor Lanahan on Discovering Her Grandmother’s Hidden Artistic Talents

By Eleanor Lanahan  November 23, 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

Jessica Todd Harper in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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
Illustrations

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

By Kathleen Radigan  November 14, 2022
Most Anticipated

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
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