• Art and Photography

    Artists

    How Artists Navigate the Interplay of Authority and Freedom

    By Jed Perl  January 12, 2022
    The Hub

    Maya Angelou is the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter.

    By Walker Caplan  January 11, 2022
    Archeology

    How Stolen Cultural Artifacts Made Their Way to a Major Museum

    By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm  January 11, 2022
    Libraries

    A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

    By Georg Ruppelt  January 10, 2022
    Comics

    The Subversive Spider-Man: How Spidey Broke the Superhero Mold

    By Ralph Macchio  January 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Sarah Burns on the Fabulous Life of Perkins Harnly

    By Keen On  December 26, 2021
    Writer's Homes

    Ginsberg, Didion, Sontag: Inside the Apartments of New York City Literary Legends, c. 1995

    By Dominique Nabokov  December 20, 2021
    Cartoons

    On New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren’s Sketches for the End Times

    By Howard Norman  December 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Check out every New Directions cover for Clarice Lispector’s work.

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2021
    Art History

    On the Birth of the Art Instinct

    By John-Paul Stonard  December 8, 2021
    Photography

    What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

    By Ann Marks  December 7, 2021
    Musicians

    “He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

    By Literary Hub  December 6, 2021
    The Hub

    This artist creates gorgeous paintings on the edges of hardcover books.

    By Walker Caplan  November 30, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Mirion Malle: “Let’s Talk About Mental Health Without Pointing Blame”

    By Sophie Yanow  November 29, 2021
    Artists

    In Willem de Kooning’s Loft at the Dawn of Bohemian New York

    By Edith Schloss  November 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Emma Cline is launching a new imprint of highbrow “Picture Books” for Gagosian.

    By Emily Temple  November 18, 2021
    collaboration

    The Wonder of Collaboration: Finding a New Spark of Creativity with Liana Finck

    By Luke Burgis  November 18, 2021
    Artists

    How Picasso Built the Foundation for the Surrealist Movement

    By John Richardson  November 17, 2021
    Comics

    Tracing the Internet’s Enormous Impact on American Comics

    By Jeremy Dauber  November 16, 2021
    Directors

    Remembering the Iconic Visuals and Creative Process of Spike Lee’s School Daze

    By Spike Lee  November 15, 2021
    Illustrations

    Bob Eckstein Illustrates New and Renovated Bookstores and Libraries from Around the Country

    By Bob Eckstein  November 12, 2021
    Film

    In Praise of Wes Anderson’s Finest Film: The Grand Budapest Hotel

    By Lucas Mann  November 11, 2021
    Artists

    On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

    By Meghan Forbes  November 4, 2021
    Creativity

    On Stealing Time to Make Art in an Overcrowded Life

    By Jackie Morris  November 3, 2021
    French literature

    How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity

    By Steven Naifeh  November 2, 2021
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