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Michel Leiris on the Details That Make Great Art

Michel Leiris on the Details That Make Great Art

Of Manet, Shakespeare, and More

By Michel Leiris | June 10, 2019

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

Kate Clarke Lemay Curates 'Portraits of Persistence' at the National Portrait Gallery

By Kate Lemay | June 4, 2019

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

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

From a New Compilation of Her Work

By Berenice Abbott | June 3, 2019

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

From Paolo Parisi's Graphic Biography of a New York Legend

By Paolo Parisi | May 28, 2019

Anger and Art in a <br>Dying Empire

Anger and Art in a
Dying Empire

Jonathan Jones on Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and
British Painting in the 1970s

By Jonathan Jones | May 17, 2019

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer's Marginalia

By Frances Cannon | May 9, 2019

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Read from the Graphic Novelization of<br> <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

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The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

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An Afternoon at María Gainza's<br> Buenos Aires Home

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