Arts + Culture

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Drape (Cavalcade III) by Eva Stenram

Abducted in plain sight

Michael Bierut|Audio

The Good, the Flat, and the Ugly

Instagram, rainbows, digital brutalism, Design: The Invention of Desire, the Freewrite.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Mrs. E.N. Todter by Dion & Puett Studio

Art and the Ladies’ Field Club

Debbie Millman|Audio

Alison Bechdel

Debbie talks to Alicon Bechdel about how identifying herself as a lesbian when she was young lead her into a career as a cartoonist.

Rob Walker|Essays

Object Journalism at Mmuseumm

The new season of Mmuseumm speaks to our present, by way of unlikely objects.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Prisons and Paradise

Solitary confinement, virtual reality, design thinking for prisoners, Drew Hodges’s Broadway, The Paradise, Prince’s unpronounceable glyph

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Rayograph with Gun by Man Ray

The poetry of the cameraless photo

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Innovation in banality

Searching the stacks of "library music"

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Made for Walking

The intricate art of the cowboy boot

Victoria Solan|Essays

Love, Optimized

Can one’s inner life be made easier by technology?

Michael Bierut|Audio

High Maintenance

Innovators and maintainers, Bernie and Hillary, mapping and infrastructure, algorithms and Rembrandt

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Sculpture en plein air

Art and nature converge in an Illinois sculpture park