What the Obamas' Portraits Reveal About the Changing American Art Canon

What the Obamas' Portraits Reveal About the Changing American Art Canon

On Kehinde Wiley and the Artistic Vision of the Obama White House

By Taína Caragol | February 12, 2020

Do We Still Know Our Own Faces in This Tech-Dominated Society?

Do We Still Know Our Own Faces in This Tech-Dominated Society?

Jessica Helfand on the Clarity and Secrecy of Human Faces

By Jessica Helfand | February 5, 2020

The Delicate Art of Living Alone: Asking the French About Love

The Delicate Art of Living Alone: Asking the French About Love

Stefania Rousselle Travels the Country with a Single Question

By Stefania Rousselle | February 3, 2020

Belletrist Studio Sessions: <br>Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

Belletrist Studio Sessions:
Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

Behind the Scenes with the Author of Good Talk

By Literary Hub | January 28, 2020

An Illustrated Reading List of Groundbreaking Mixed-Media Literature

An Illustrated Reading List of Groundbreaking Mixed-Media Literature

Nathan Holic on Some of His Favorite Graphic Texts

By Nathan Holic | January 27, 2020

Searching for <em>Guernica</em>: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

Searching for Guernica: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

An Art World Sleepover with Adel Abdessemed and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot

By Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Adel Abdessemed | January 27, 2020

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Kyle Chayka on the Godfather of Minimalism and His Case for Imperfection

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On Contemporary Minimalism's Maximal Lies

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Paul Rudolph's Strange Vision of a Cross-Manhattan Expressway (and Other Unfinished Projects)

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In Conversation with One of America's Iconic Architects

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Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

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Lisa Lee Herrick Traces Her Ancestry, the Hmong People, from Laos to America

By Lisa Lee Herrick | December 20, 2019

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

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By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

On the Aesthetics of Research

By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall | December 12, 2019

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

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Considering the Relativity of Beauty in Human History

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95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,<br> and Bathroom Stalls

95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,
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Why Are We Fascinated by the Writing on the Wall?

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