• Art and Photography

    Reading Lists

    The Artist and The Audience: Writing About the Complexity of Creating Art

    By Scott O’Connor  November 2, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Pete Souza on When Generosity of Spirit Reigned in Politics

    By The Literary Life  October 30, 2020
    Photography

    Fran Lebowitz on the Glamorous Worlds of Camilla McGrath

    By Fran Lebowitz  October 28, 2020
    Architecture

    Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

    By Sam Lubell  October 28, 2020
    Photography

    Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, and Hollywood’s Blond Mania

    By Philip Gefter  October 27, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Recreating Scenes From the 20th Century’s Most Iconic Bedtime Story

    By Kate Bernheimer  October 27, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Artist Richard Kraft is documenting every single Trump transgression from 2017 to 2021.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 23, 2020
    Graphic Novel

    Protests, Poverty, Politics and Civil War: On Life Before the Beirut Explosion

    By Tamara Saade and Eléonore "Léo" Hamelin  October 23, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Artist Lauren Halsey on the Shape-Shifting Possibilities of Afrofuturism

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 23, 2020
    Art

    Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

    By Anne Carson  October 22, 2020
    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
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