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The 13 Best Book Covers of April

The 13 Best Book Covers of April

A Bouquet of Bright Books for Spring

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2023

Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

Lee Durkee Considers the Many Painted Portrayals of the Bard

By Lee Durkee | April 17, 2023

Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

Benjamin Balint on the Unlikely Discovery of an Artistic Legacy

By Benjamin Balint | April 11, 2023

After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

Jeannie Marshall on Seeing Life and Time in Michelangeo’s Frescos

By Jeannie Marshall | April 6, 2023

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

Will Gompertz on the Complex Life and Work of an Iconic Japanese Artist

By Will Gompertz | April 5, 2023

Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

Katie Holten Calls for the Rewilding of Vocabularies

By Katie Holten | April 4, 2023

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Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

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By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross | March 22, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Freeman on the Marriage of Beauty and Science in the Italian Renaissance

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

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