• Art and Photography

    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
    Artists

    On the Unique Artistic Sensibility of Magda Nachman

    By Lina Bernstein  July 29, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald

    By Alissa Quart  July 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Joe Sacco: Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great Pandemic Wars?

    By Joe Sacco  July 27, 2020
    Celebrity

    The Dangerous and Untold Story of Paparazzi Work

    By Vanessa Diaz  July 24, 2020
    Cartoons

    Adrian Tomine Confronts Shame, Failure, and Jerks in Cartooning

    By Emily Gould  July 23, 2020
    The Hub

    A math teacher has painted 45 book rocks to hide in her local library (when it reopens).

    By Emily Temple  July 20, 2020
    The Hub

    I’m obsessed with Rick Beerhorst’s surrealist odes to reading.

    By Emily Temple  July 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Birth of Quarantine Zines

    By Gauraa Shekhar  July 16, 2020
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating Nick Carraway’s Infatuation with New York City High Life

    By Fred Fordham and Aya Morton  July 9, 2020
    Queer Culture

    Capturing the Soul of Fire Island: Attitude Without Judgment

    By Patrick Ryan  July 1, 2020
    Satire

    Art Young’s Dante-Inspired Satire Replaced Demons with Exploitative Capitalists

    By Steven Heller  June 29, 2020
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