Edison Studios film showing the lights of Luna Park and Dreamland during the peak of the famed New York amusement district.

In the 1850s, as photography took its first steps toward commercial reproducibility, a more intimate use for light-sensitive plates briefly bloomed. It had a few names: heliographic drawing, [...]

Handmade book showing Paul Claudel's scenario, with illustrations by Audrey Parr and Hélène Hoppenot, for Darius Milhaud's ballet *L'homme et son desir*.

The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.

19th-century German chromolithographs of paper lanterns, the kind used to celebrate St. Martin's Day.

Travel to Rome, Alaska, West Africa and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives

These highlights from the Smithsonian Photo Contest are sure to scare up some smiles

These highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are a home run

A courageous New Deal program brought authoritarianism into the spotlight. Then the drama moved onto the political stage

The famed sculptor brings his incendiary style—and fiery palette—to the canvas in a new studio in Venice

Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers.

Rediscover Gerry Anderson's forgotten project in a brilliantly bizarre new photo book.

Embrace the future of graphic design by studying online with this well-loved education provider.

The director of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like.

The best festive cards for Christmas 2023 by independent artists and designers.

Activists called out the museum’s holdings of Native remains while denouncing “the genocide of Indigenous Palestinians.”

The fate of innumerable sacred lives, buildings, and artifacts destroyed mainly by Ethiopian and invading Eritrean troops are still being willfully ignored by Western governments and international [...]

Dozens of artists and cultural workers gathered in the museum’s Turbine Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian community.

In her visceral works, Uckotter examines a version of trans womanhood unseen in most mainstream narratives.

Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.

On this continuation with Alice Bag, Jello and Alice discuss her early teenage years and the forming of the BAGS, Darby Crash, the Canterbury Apartments, and bringin back cheap skunk weed. Hosted on [...]

Today Jello interviews trailblazer Alice Bag! The two discuss Alice growing up in Mexico and her early days moving to America. They also discuss music, teaching, LA riots, growing up catholic, and [...]

What Would Jello Do?: Feinstein Jello Biafra addresses the passing, and the legacy of his one time political rival, Diane Feinstein. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Legendary bassist of the Minutemen and many other projects joins Jello to discuss growing up, his beginnings in music with his childhood friend, and of course politics! Hosted on Acast. See [...]

On this continuation, Jello and Shepard discuss the consequences of renegade art, the famous people trying to prevent Shepards art and the future exhibitions Shepard is creating. Hosted on Acast. [...]

Top to bottom: I am a huge fan of Atticus Lish’s 2014 novel Preparation for the Next Life, and I’m a fan of indie Tyrant Books, but I’d never heard of his 2011 collection of [...]

Challenge, 1940 by Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)

Breakfast James Joyce’s Burnt Kidney Breakfast Thomas Pynchon’s Banana Breakfast Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque Soup Donald Barthelme’s Fine Oxtail Soup and Lentil Soup Gordon [...]

“To Be Hungry Is to Be Great” by William Carlos Williams The small, yellow grass-onion, spring’s first green, precursor to Manhattan’s pavements, when plucked as it comes, in [...]

Hilda’s Turkey Hash 1 pound diced cooked turkey meat (white & dark) 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons butter 2 medium onions, diced Salt to taste, pepper too 1 red sweet pepper, diced (A [...]

Interiors, Sergio Ceccotti

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Jon Klassen

Geoff McFetridge (because)

The last days of disco, Larry Fink (RIP)

Even in his name, Christian Rex van Minnen feels of a different time. Even though his technique feels that of a 21st century master, that his ongoing/offgoing relationship to social media feels quite [...]

Pop culture, in itself, is an art form. From behind the curtain of mass production or just plain visual production, there are pieces of art thrown at our eyeballs every day. Think about advertising, [...]

M+B is pleased to present Listening Arm, featuring new works by Eliot Greenwald, marking the artist's third presentation with the gallery. The exhibition opens December 2 and will run [...]

On today's A Portfolio, we look at the works of Oakland-based Rupy C. Tut, who is currently showing with ICA SF and is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery. Born in Chandigarh, India, Tut's [...]

“Once you find yourself in another civilization, you’re forced to examine your own.” —James Baldwin

“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) his entire life. Lito had been searching [...]

2023 felt like a turning point for Japan. After several years of covid-induced seclusion, tourism rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. And although just anecdotal, so many people we spoke to who [...]

As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The red hardback sat on the bottom shelf in my friend’s room and every time I went over to play I [...]

I like to eat apples and bananas. Yuni Yoshida, the creative director known for her mind-bending visual illusions, likes to alter them, creating visually arresting compositions that make you look, [...]

Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s. At the height of his career in the 1890s he created numerous graphic patterns inspired by [...]