Art
How Alphonse Mucha’s Smoking Designs Made Art Nouveau
His images of towering women and mind-bending vegetal forms, found many audiences through theater posters for Sarah Bernhardt and rolling papers.
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Art
Illuminated Manuscripts Demonstrate that Medieval Borders Were Regularly Crossed
A new digitization project brings together 800 medieval manuscripts and offers a different image of the early middle ages: one of connection and exchange.
Art
Artists Take Over an Iconic Lloyd Wright House in Los Angeles
Passages, a two-day program of performance, film, and music, will explore the home’s architectural and cultural significance.
Film
Barry Jenkins’s Tender Adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
Jenkins brings a visual richness to the story, accentuating the emotional undertones of Baldwin’s words.
In Brief
This Wild Car Design May Look Like a Mars Rover, But Could Save Your Life
Hyundai's strange design experiment could represent the future of the first responders's industry trying to handle increasingly difficult natural disasters and humanitarian aid missions.
Art
The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos
Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
Opinion
Most Shared Tweet of All Time Costs Billionaire Art Collector Almost $1M
Yusaku Maezawa posted a tweet offering 100 random people 1 million yen (~$9,200) and it garnered almost 5.5 million retweets.
Comics
How to Take Positive Feedback as an Artist
The term "masochistic epistemology" seems appropriate, no?
In Brief
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton Collaborators Save Drama Book Shop From Closing
A recent rent increase had imperiled the century-old bookshop in the New York Theatre District , which has fostered countless award-winning playwrights and composers — like Miranda himself.
Announcement
Apply Now for Warren Wilson College's MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies
A low-residency format designed to build a field of craft studies.
Art
An Artist Transforms Her House into a Living Museum
At Flo Kasearu's House Museum, velvet red ropes serve as partitions between those rooms in which “real life” takes place and the public spaces from which visitors can peek in.
Art
Clyfford Still, as Seen Through His Daughter’s Eyes
Sandra Still offers sharp judgments on celebrated paintings and brilliant details about her father during his most reclusive period.