Art
A century before John James Audubon illustrated The Birds of America, English naturalist Mark Catesby journeyed across the Atlantic to systematically study the animals and plants of the "New World."
Books
These prints helped render the world for mass consumption.
Comics
Since the US Civil War, photographs has changed the way we understand war.
Art
The inaugural exhibition at Haus Mödrath Space for Art deals with the tensions shared among the mansion, its history, the landscape, and the home as a display space for art.
Art
Among the reigning patriarchs of the New York School, the young Rauschenberg found his greatest and earliest champion in the painter Jack Tworkov.
Art
While American military cemeteries may look uniform with their rows of cross-adorned tombs, look closer and you'll find Wiccan Pentacles, Atheist Atoms, and the Hammer of Thor.
Art
This week, South Korea's HighLine, the new Marciano Art Foundation in LA, gentrifying African art, chemtrail conspiracy theorists, peak latte, and more.
Art
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
Books
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Books
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
Art
Stettheimer was born into a wealthy, financially secure Jewish family, and she never had to work. For some people, her wealth means that she did not suffer enough to be an artist, and therefore her work does not have enough gravity.
Art
The presence of a mattress and the trauma of displacement.