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What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

Douglas Dreishpoon on the Reflections of an Iconic Artist

By Douglas Dreishpoon | October 3, 2022

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

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

“Most memories die and most objects are lost, many by design.”

By Drew Johnson | September 30, 2022

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

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

Charlotte Van den Broeck on the Italian Baroque Master, Francesco Borromini

By Charlotte Van den Broeck | September 26, 2022

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

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

Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth on Adapting the Conversations of Two American Icons for the Stage

By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth | September 21, 2022

How Iconic Movie Monster “The Pale Man” Was Created

How Iconic Movie Monster “The Pale Man” Was Created

Behind the Scenes of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth

By David Martí | September 21, 2022

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

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

From her Graphic Memoir, It Won't Always Be Like This

By Malaka Gharib | September 21, 2022

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

By Silas Munro | September 21, 2022

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | September 19, 2022

Kate Beaton on Why Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir Isn't as "Dismal" as Some Critics Have Suggested

By Keen On | September 19, 2022

Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

Sara Woster on Finding the Words We Need

By Sara Woster | September 14, 2022

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

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

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By NewberyTart | September 14, 2022

Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

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By Annette Dauphin Simon | September 12, 2022

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

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

“It’s a high you can’t find anywhere else.”

By Miss Rosen | September 8, 2022

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

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

“There’s a relentlessly graphic thing to Justin Kimball’s pictures.”

By Eileen Myles | September 7, 2022

Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts

Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang

Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang

“The act of seeing the visual art of another has allowed my mind and imagination to be free.”

By Victoria Chang | September 6, 2022

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