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A New <em>Autobiography</em>: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover

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Lana Lin Asks Us to Reconsider Our Expectations of Memoir, Art and the Creative Process

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Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

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Painting Outside the Lines: On the Life and Work of Abstract Artist Emily Mason

Painting Outside the Lines: On the Life and Work of Abstract Artist Emily Mason

“Her best works—across mediums—came from ceding control, allowing herself to become a ‘conduit’ for the unknown.”

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Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

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Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection

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A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

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