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Between Desirability and Possibility: On the Beauty of the Aging Female Body

Between Desirability and Possibility: On the Beauty of the Aging Female Body

Darcey Steinke Considers the Work of Linda Troeller and the Liberatory Potential of the Self-Portrait

By Darcey Steinke | March 7, 2024

Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book

Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book

Dalya Benor Considers the High-Concept Hybrid Taking Over the Literary World

By Dalya Benor | March 5, 2024

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman Chronicle Everyday Life in a Disintegrating Community

By Judith Freeman and Jim Mangan | March 4, 2024

The Rarely Seen Color Photographs of Garry Winogrand

The Rarely Seen Color Photographs of Garry Winogrand

Michael Almereyda on the Famed Photographer’s Use of Color

By Michael Almereyda | February 26, 2024

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Kimberly Juanita Brown on the Long, Global Tradition of the Antiblack Gaze

By Kimberly Juanita Brown | February 23, 2024

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

Emma Dries on Loft Life Above the Fulton Fish Market and the Day That Everything Changed

By Emma Dries | February 22, 2024

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Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

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Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

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How Ai Weiwei Marries Advocacy and Art at Home and Abroad

How Ai Weiwei Marries Advocacy and Art at Home and Abroad

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Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

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How the Fire That Destroyed My Paintings Turned Me Into a Writer

How the Fire That Destroyed My Paintings Turned Me Into a Writer

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On the Serious Business of 19th-Century Fairy Paintings

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Jennifer Higgie Considers the Significance of a Mystical Artistic Tradition

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How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

M. Leona Godin Considers, Among Other Things, the Enduring Trope of the Blind Pencil Vendor

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How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

Michelle Wildgen on the Art of the Author Photo

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