• Art and Photography

    Monuments

    How Monuments Help Us Remember—Or Not Remember—the Past

    By Andrew Shanken  October 18, 2022
    Cheese

    On the Culinary and Artistic History of Cheese

    By Noëlle Janaczewska  October 17, 2022
    Love Stories

    The Roiling Mess: Mairead Small Staid on Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, and Love Stories

    By Mairead Small Staid  October 14, 2022
    Painters

    The Waning Years of Edward Hopper

    By Richard Lacayo  October 13, 2022
    Illustration

    The Trailblazing Illustrator and Mountaineer Who Explored the Wild North

    By Pamela Henson  October 12, 2022
    News and Culture

    Arwen Donahue on the Doubts Left Behind By Sudden Death

    By Arwen Donahue  October 12, 2022
    Art

    9 Novels of Art and Seduction

    By Lauren Acampora  October 6, 2022
    Bookstores

    New York City’s Best Bookstore Storefronts: An Illustrated (Incomplete) List

    By David Dodge and Joel Holland  October 4, 2022
    Painting

    What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

    By Douglas Dreishpoon  October 3, 2022
    What to Watch

    Everything Dies Baby, That’s a Fact: On the Elusive Train Dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie

    By Drew Johnson  September 30, 2022
    Architecture

    How an Architect’s Endless Pursuit of Artistic Perfection Drove Him To Despair

    By Charlotte Van den Broeck  September 26, 2022
    Artists

    How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol’s Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

    By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth  September 21, 2022
    News and Culture

    How Iconic Movie Monster “The Pale Man” Was Created

    By David Martí  September 21, 2022
    Graphic Memoir

    Malaka Gharib on a Summer in Egypt and Learning to Love Her Stepmother

    By Malaka Gharib  September 21, 2022
    Design

    Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

    By Silas Munro  September 21, 2022
    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Kate Beaton on Why Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir Isn’t as “Dismal” as Some Critics Have Suggested

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Poetry

    Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

    By Annette Dauphin Simon  September 12, 2022
    Photography

    On Martha Cooper’s Exhilarating Photos of 1980s NYC Graffiti

    By Miss Rosen  September 8, 2022
    Photography

    Eileen Myles on the “Astonishingly Vivid” Photos of Justin Kimball

    By Eileen Myles  September 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts

    By Keen On  September 7, 2022
    Syllabi

    Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang

    By Victoria Chang  September 6, 2022
    Photography

    No Pets Left Behind: A Brief History of Photography Told Through Antique Dog Portraits

    By Anthony Cavo  September 2, 2022
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