• Art and Photography

    The Quarantine Tapes

    Artist Ramsess on the Circularity of History

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 20, 2020
    Photography

    What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

    By Sarah Sentilles  October 19, 2020
    Change Lab

    Photographer Barbara DuMetz on Bringing Diversity to Both Sides of the Camera

    By Change Lab  October 16, 2020
    Black Music

    Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

    By Anaïs Duplan  October 14, 2020
    The Hub

    Marjane Satrapi’s hypnotizing paintings of women are now on view in Paris.

    By Emily Temple  October 7, 2020
    The Hub

    See highlights from James A. Michener’s enormous abstract art collection.

    By Emily Temple  October 2, 2020
    Beauty

    Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

    By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of September

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Scenes From a Vigil: New York City Mourns the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Rachel Cobb  September 25, 2020
    Comics

    Climactic Moments in Literature Rescheduled as Zoom Meetings

    By Kate Gavino  September 23, 2020
    Art History

    Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

    By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Your guide to enjoying a New York City museum in the middle of a pandemic.

    By Corinne Segal  September 15, 2020
    Research

    The Countess Who Wanted to be the Most Photographed Woman in the World

    By Nathalie Léger  September 14, 2020
    Climate Change

    Writing in the Edgelands: A Conversation Between Kerri Arsenault and
    Elizabeth Rush

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 8, 2020
    Artists

    What Awaits Muses Who Outlive
    Their Usefulness?

    By Annalena McAfee  September 3, 2020
    Artists

    A Lineage of Artists: Polly Crosby on Her Famous Illustrator Uncles

    By Polly Crosby  September 1, 2020
    Museums

    As The Met Reopens, a Former Employee Longs For Its Art

    By Christine Coulson  August 31, 2020
    Illustrations

    An Illustrator Brings Realism into Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction

    By Aaron Robertson  August 27, 2020
    Craft

    I have more than 600 postcards from a guy who made them into a literary genre.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown

    By David Farrier  August 25, 2020
    Illustrations

    Lisa Hanawalt’s Early, Surreal Comic Art

    By Lisa Hanawalt  August 18, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    Pop Culture

    The Intentional Visual Chaos of Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the Louvre

    By Alexis L. Boylan  August 14, 2020
    Work

    We Need to Treat Artists as Workers, Not Decorations

    By William Deresiewicz  August 5, 2020
    American Classics

    Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

    By Jeet Heer  August 3, 2020
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