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

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

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

What Happens When You Read a Bookshelf?

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

By Keen On | September 7, 2022

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Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang

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The 11 Best Book Covers of August

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13 Ways of Looking at <em>Denial</em>: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

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How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

Hayley Campbell on the Painstaking Process of Depicting the Dead For the Living

By Hayley Campbell | August 24, 2022

Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

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Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

By Jonny Diamond | August 23, 2022

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

Alice Sedgwick Wohl on Her Sister’s Transformation From Model To Icon

By Alice Sedgwick Wohl | August 19, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

Part Three in the “13 Ways of Looking” Series

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