• Art and Photography

    Photography

    There’s No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

    Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt: "The beach is the divide between one world, the dry, and another, the wet. It is a mythical place of transformation."

     
    By Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt  May 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 9, 2025
    literary criticism

    Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

    By Philip Hoare  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump’s NEA is terminating hundreds of grants in literature, theater, and the arts.

    By James Folta  May 5, 2025
    Children

    Kids Are Actually Really Funny, Wise, Weird, and Philosophical

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2025
    Art History

    Dogs Through the Ages: A Creative History of a Faithful Human Companion

    By Jessica Poundstone  May 5, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Covers

    What Would These Iconic Movies Look Like As Books?

    By Matt Stevens  April 29, 2025
    Cartoons

    Art and Craft: An Illustrated Conversation Between Lena Moses-Schmitt and Martha Park

    By Literary Hub  April 24, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Put Your Butt in the Chair: Inside the Simple Alchemy of Making Art

    By Elisha Cooper  April 21, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    100 Book Covers for Mrs. Dalloway

    Celebrating a Century of Virginia Woolf’s Classic Novel

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2025
    American West

    What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

    By Martha A. Sandweiss  April 16, 2025
    Comics

    How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art

    By Dan Nadel  April 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Goodnight, Moon is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children’s book stamps.

    By Brittany Allen  April 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Ten books that get the theatre world right.

    By Brittany Allen  April 8, 2025
    Book Design

    Secrets of the Designer: The Nuance of Creating the Perfect Book Cover

    By Alia Hanna Habib  April 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Eight print(!) magazines that should be on your radar.

    By Brittany Allen  March 25, 2025
    Art and Life

    A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

    By Peter Trachtenberg  March 25, 2025
    The Hub

    For its tenth birthday(!), A Little Life is getting a makeover.

    By Brittany Allen  March 12, 2025
    Ancient History

    What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

    By Jennifer Lucy Allan  March 7, 2025
    Craftsmanship

    Patchworks of Memory: Quilting Remembrance and Healing

    By Lisa Gail Collins  March 5, 2025
    Design

    The 18 Best Book Covers of February

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2025
    Fashion History

    From Princely Regalia to Women’s Underwear: The Evolution of the Color Pink

    Michel Pastoureau on the History of a Color

    By Michel Pastoureau  February 24, 2025
    Underreported

    The curious case of the stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald statue.

    By Brittany Allen  February 14, 2025
    Illustrations

    From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2025
    Children's Book Art

    Inside a New Exhibit That Celebrates the Most Unappreciated Part of Children’s Books.

    By Brittany Allen  April 17, 2025
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