Greedy Peasant
and the saint snap system
David Macaulay, America’s “Explainer-in-chief”
Author David Macaulay has spent more than 50 years finding ways to explain things, via his humorous and intricately illustrated books featuring wooly mammoth guides – his attempt to hook…
How Salvador Dalí’s art found a home in Florida
More than 2,400 works by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), from oil paintings and prints to sculptural mashups, are featured at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., which…
The Great Women Artists: Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville. Hailed for her at times colossal paintings of the human form – from close ups of the face, to examinations of exposed flesh – Saville is fascinated with…
There is nothing
Louise Bourgeois
Art & Courage: A Guide to Sustaining a Creative Path
Since its release in 1993, Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland has become an underground classic helping artists across various disciplines persevere through uncertainty and self-doubt and…
Milicent Patrick: Disney Magic to Monster Mayhem
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re producing a two-part series about two visionary and trailblazing artists: Mary Blair and Milicent Patrick. They went to the same art school. They…
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
One of seven brothers, Nick Cave grew up watching his family create magic out of scraps. His aunts would cut paper bags into patterns, and in just one day, make…
The Women Weavers
of the Little Loomhouse
The Unicorn by Mae Wilson
Andromeda’s BeastiaryA unicorn whose job is to eat the universe. A mysterious corpse that shows up at random events and annoys people; a piece of trash with abandonment issues, trees…