• Art and Photography

    News and Culture

    How Iconic Movie Monster “The Pale Man” Was Created

    By David Martí  September 21, 2022
    Graphic Memoir

    Malaka Gharib on a Summer in Egypt and Learning to Love Her Stepmother

    By Malaka Gharib  September 21, 2022
    Design

    Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

    By Silas Munro  September 21, 2022
    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Kate Beaton on Why Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir Isn’t as “Dismal” as Some Critics Have Suggested

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Poetry

    Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

    By Annette Dauphin Simon  September 12, 2022
    Photography

    On Martha Cooper’s Exhilarating Photos of 1980s NYC Graffiti

    By Miss Rosen  September 8, 2022
    Photography

    Eileen Myles on the “Astonishingly Vivid” Photos of Justin Kimball

    By Eileen Myles  September 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts

    By Keen On  September 7, 2022
    Syllabi

    Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang

    By Victoria Chang  September 6, 2022
    Photography

    No Pets Left Behind: A Brief History of Photography Told Through Antique Dog Portraits

    By Anthony Cavo  September 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Does Our Desire for Social Rank Determine Taste, Identity, Art, and Fashion?

    By Keen On  September 1, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of August

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

    By Jon Raymond  August 25, 2022
    Death

    How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

    By Hayley Campbell  August 24, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

    By NewberyTart   August 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 23, 2022
    Celebrity

    The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

    By Alice Sedgwick Wohl  August 19, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

    By Maud Newton  August 18, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology

    By Joseph Osmundson  August 4, 2022
    Art History

    How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

    By Mark Braude  August 4, 2022
    Artist's Books

    Inside the Making of an Artist’s Book

    By Tammy Nguyen  July 29, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking: Samantha Hunt on the Visual Inspirations Behind Her First Work of Nonfiction

    By Samantha Hunt  July 28, 2022
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