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Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Inger Christensen Meditates on the Importance of Creation

By Inger Christensen | November 27, 2018

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

By Joshua Sperling | November 26, 2018

How Do You Make Art From Walking and Looking?

How Do You Make Art From Walking and Looking?

Hal Foster Talks to Richard Serra About Sites, Non-Sites, and Mobile Bodies

By Hal Foster and Richard Serra | November 26, 2018

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario's Letters Home from Iraq

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario's Letters Home from Iraq

"I am still in Baghdad. I almost died yesterday, and the day before, and am tired and stressed."

By Lynsey Addario | October 30, 2018

The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

On the Patience of Cy Twombly

By Joshua Rivkin | October 26, 2018

The Weird and Wonderful Art of Edward Carey

The Weird and Wonderful Art of Edward Carey

The Author of Little on Seeing His Characters Fully Formed

By Edward Carey | October 23, 2018

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The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

By Kembrew McLeod | October 19, 2018

The Vengeance of Artemisia Gentileschi

By Jenni Murray | October 12, 2018

What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

By Beowulf Sheehan | October 9, 2018

Life, Death, and Art: On the Photography of Reva Brooks

Life, Death, and Art: On the Photography of Reva Brooks

“The minute I got the camera around my neck it was part of my body.”

By Merilyn Simonds | October 5, 2018

How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

Along with the Emerging Art Critic Clement Greenberg

By Mary Gabriel | October 2, 2018

Protest Art and the Fight for Standing Rock

Protest Art and the Fight for Standing Rock

"Bursheim Had Sewn a Subtle but Still Quite Visible 'NOKXL' on the Back of the Quilt"

By Kara Thompson | September 20, 2018

Building a Personality From 100-Year-Old Photographs

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Nuala O'Connor on the Legend of Belle Bilton

By Nuala O'Connor | August 31, 2018

When Art Imitates Art: Portraits of Literary Characters by Famous Artists

When Art Imitates Art: Portraits of Literary Characters by Famous Artists

From Picasso's Don Quixote to Lichtenstein's Tintin

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2018

The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

For One Thing, You've Probably Been Looking at it Upside Down

By Emily Temple | August 24, 2018

James Baldwin’s Children’s Book Will Help You See the World with Fresh Eyes

James Baldwin’s Children’s Book Will Help You See the World with Fresh Eyes

On Reissuing the Quietly Radical Little Man, Little Man

By Nicholas Boggs | August 24, 2018

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