Ideology as Anatomy
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives
Tales From an Attic
Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives
Bodies Grotesque and Beautiful
Searching for aesthetics and meaning in the monstrous
An Artist of Our Social Age
Matthew Wong broke all the rules and flourished online, but he craved what the outsider typically eschews: commercial success
The Feminine Arts
A writer explores the elation and difficulty of making art while female
Artist of Excess
The man who painted his century’s nightmare
Long-Distance Punishment
Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Intimate relationships shaped by the movement of history
Water in the Empty Part of the Map
The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke
