Arts + Culture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

John Foster|Insights Per Minute

John Foster on Colloquialisms

John Foster has been a longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography, as well as an artist, designer, and art curator.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Barkcloth Art of the Omie

Accidental Mysteries for September 22 focuses on art of the Ömie people of New Guinea — powerful, graphic works on barkcloth that they call nioge.

Roshanak Keyghobadi|Essays

Composing in Space: Tactile Poetry of Farhad Fozouni

A review of work by Iranian graphic designer Farhad Fozouni.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Family Album of Oddities

Bohumil Stepan’s Familienalbum presents a series of surreally equipped and irreverently modified collages of his family.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Artful Mourning

The art of mourning in Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries: a look at post-mortem and memorial photographs and memorabilia.

Marvin Heiferman|Insights Per Minute

Marvin Heiferman on Photography

Marvin Heiferman, a curator and writer, develops exhibitions, websites and publications that explore visual culture.

John Maeda|Insights Per Minute

John Maeda on Loops

We’re in the same loop. Culture lags. Art and design have to pick up the slack.

Wendy MacLeod|Insights Per Minute

Wendy MacLeod on Fasting

Wendy MacLeod ia an award-winning playwright.

Mark Lamster|Essays

High Net Space: The New International Style

High Net Space: The New International Style

Ricky Jay|Insights Per Minute

Ricky Jay on Collecting

Ricky Jay is considered one of the world's great sleight of hand artists.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Gallery of Erotic Humor

Mapp Editions has released a digital version of Bohumil Stepan’s Galerie (1968), a surreal collection of collages and drawings about the relationship between the sexes.