• Art and Photography

    Women's suffrage

    On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

    By Kate Lemay  June 4, 2019
    From the Archive

    New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

    By Berenice Abbott  June 3, 2019
    graphic biography

    SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    By Paolo Parisi  May 28, 2019
    British Art

    Anger and Art in a
    Dying Empire

    By Jonathan Jones  May 17, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

    By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
    Archives

    How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History

    By Natasha Trethewey  May 7, 2019
    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

    By Nina Subin  May 6, 2019
    Modern Art

    Here’s the World’s First Public Gallery of Modern Art

    By Morna O'Neill  May 6, 2019
    Annotations

    Finnegan’s Wake at 80:
    In Defense of the Difficult

    By Susie Lopez  May 3, 2019
    The Robots

    What Are We Saying When We Call
    an Algorithm ‘Creative’?

    By Marcus du Sautoy  April 17, 2019
    News and Culture

    Read from the Graphic Novelization of
    The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Renee Nault  April 5, 2019
    Children's Lit

    What Are the Elements of a Good Children’s Poem?

    By Penelope Lively  April 5, 2019
    Anarchy and Art

    The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

    By Edward Gauvin  April 3, 2019
    Profile

    An Afternoon at María Gainza’s
    Buenos Aires Home

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 31, 2019
    Photography

    AIPAD

    By Catherine Talese  March 25, 2019
    Feature

    The Oldest American Picture Book Still in Print is Obviously About Cats

    By Emily Temple  March 11, 2019
    Feature

    Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, and the People Who Loved Them

    By Carolyn Burke  March 6, 2019
    Essay

    On the Intoxicating Alchemy of Pottery

    By Anuradha Roy  February 11, 2019
    Excerpts

    Don’t You Dare Call Me a Beatnik

    By Tosh Berman  February 8, 2019
    Feature

    5 Women Who Revolutionized Film and Television

    By Elizabeth Weitzman and Austen Claire Clements  February 6, 2019
    Design

    How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

    By Kiley Bense  January 30, 2019
    Art

    In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum

    By Ruby Brunton  January 29, 2019
    Feature

    How Do You Photograph the Wind?

    By Lit Hub Photography  December 13, 2018
    Feature

    Paul Theroux on the Iconic Photographs of Steve McCurry

    By Bonnie McCurry  December 7, 2018
    Art

    Abstract Art Didn’t Begin with Picasso

    By Lance Esplund  December 4, 2018
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