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How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.
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American Art Critics, from Lucy Lippard to Darby English, Open Up in a Book of Interviews
In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.
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Luminous Summer Scenes from Local American Fairs
Photographer Pamela Littky spent the summer of 2015 driving thousands of miles through 15 states to capture the American fair.
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Documenting the Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Comics
Escaping Wars and Waves culls Olivier Kugler's contributions to Harper's, Le Monde diplomatique, The New Yorker, and more.
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The View from the NY Art Book Fair Zine Tent: 8 Zines You Want to Know About
This year's zinesters brought some of the most playful, provocative, and interesting items on display, and here are some notable picks.
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In Passing for Human, Liana Finck Illustrates Her Search for Selfhood
The New Yorker cartoonist calls her new graphic memoir "a neurological coming-of-age story."
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Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
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How a Graphic Novel About 1930s Germany Feels Poignant and Prescient
Jason Lutes's epic graphic novel series Berlin, which began in 1996, comes to a close this year. Little did he know how relevant his books would be.
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A Photographer Focuses on Transhumanism
Showcasing transformational changes in the ways we view our bodies and the possibilities for hybridizing them, Matthieu Gasfou's H+: Transhumanism(s) is both a historical document and a possible warning for the future.
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Connoisseurship Is Not a Dirty Word
Connoisseurship, it is often said, is elitist, Euro-centric, and logo-centric, to employ the fashionable jargon.
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What Is a Poet?
Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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A Norwegian Tale of Love Is Translated
Originally published in Oslo in 1997 to great acclaim, Hanne Ørstavik's novella Love is a delicate, fragile tale governed by its own laws of narration.