• Art and Photography

    Literary Journals

    “We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

    By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Craft

    Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

    By Benjamin Moser  November 20, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars Became Political Signifiers

    By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader  November 13, 2023
    Art History

    Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

    By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
    Photography

    What It’s Like Inside Court With Donald Trump

    By Rachel Cobb  November 7, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
    AI

    Can a Computer Write Like Eudora Welty?

    By Randy Sparkman  October 30, 2023
    Graphic Memoir

    Roz Chast, Like All of Us, Has Recurring Dreams

    By Roz Chast  October 25, 2023
    Craft of Globemaking

    On the Artisanal Craft of Making a Globe

    By Peter Bellerby  October 23, 2023
    Art and Life

    Life as a Art Conservator: Learning to Be Grateful for Failure

    By Rosa Lowinger  October 20, 2023
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    Art

    Searching For Agnes Martin

    By Brian Teare  September 28, 2023
    Art and Writing

    What Do Writers Do On Instagram?

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2023
    Artists

    Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

    By Joanna Moorhead  August 22, 2023
    Photography

    Self-Portrait in Other People’s Pictures

    By Rebecca Bengal  August 17, 2023
    Toys

    What It Was Like to Design for Barbie

    By Carol Spencer  August 14, 2023
    Behind the Book Cover

    Two Designers, Two Countries, Two Covers: How Limitarianism Got Its Look

    By Literary Hub  August 10, 2023
    Inspiration

    J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

    By J. Vanessa Lyon  August 2, 2023
    Muses

    Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History’s Forgotten Women

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  July 26, 2023
    Art and Poetry

    Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

    By Ann Magnuson  July 20, 2023
    Art and Life

    Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Truly Appreciate the Sistine Chapel

    By Jeannie Marshall  July 19, 2023
    Design

    The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

    By Lawrence Sutin  July 17, 2023
    Art History

    Visibility and Erasure: Julia Bryan-Wilson on the Artist Louise Nevelson

    By Jon Raymond  July 7, 2023
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