The Magnificent Carved Eggs of Gil Batle

A delicious viral tribute to a gut-bomb ZZ Top album-packaging image from the vinyl era

The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Duchamp’s Magazines

Building the new China

A new logo for the Met Museum raises questions about how we evaluate new identities.

Debbie talks to psychology writer Maria Konnikova about her career and her fascination with con artists. She explains why so many people fall prey to confidence games.

Feminism: The End of the Show

The Itinerant Photographers of Guatemala

Breaking in

What are the acceptable limits of outsider art?

The mystery of birth

Debbie talks to Mimi Valdés about her unstoppable career, from magazine editor to her creative partnership with the pop singer Pharrell Williams.

This collection of underground music and culture events flyers come from the personal online collection of Chicago collector Marc Fischer.

A man and his magazine covers

Music of the Street

The photographer as performer

Debbie talks to Ayse Birsel about her expansive career as an industrial designer and how she uses art and design to reconstruct her personal and professional life around a core idea.

The Internetization of Death

Designer Annie Atkins Keep’s it Real for the Big Screen

Interest earned

A new Gill Sans for the DIY era

The art and exaggeration of movie promos

A Tribute Told in Two Letters