Art + Design x Life
14 Daily Rituals of Artists That Shaped Masterpieces
They say the muse likes her artists weird, and in these daily rituals of artists — the private theatres of...
Mad Muse: A Cultural History of the Tortured Genius
In the echo of many artists' minds, a spectre of the tortured genius lingers. From Plato’s ecstatic seizure to Kusama’s...
Yannis Tsarouchis’ Greek Pantheon: Gay Eros & Zeibekiko Icons
Beneath the sodium glow of dockside lamps and the bougainvillea-shadowed stoops of Piraeus, Yannis Tsarouchis once walked as if through...
Eugène Séguy's Diptera: Entomology as Graphic Poetry
Eugène Séguy's illustrations, governed by taxonomic fidelity and the formal grace of Art Nouveau, are decorative declarations. Reminding us that...
Cartographer’s Gaze: Émile Prisse d’Avennes Canvas of Islamic Art
He walked with paper where others brought picks. Where empire pillaged in crates, he traced in graphite. Émile Prisse d’Avennes...
Alfred Stieglitz — from Manhattan to Lake George & the Sky
History often footnotes its visionaries as technicians, but Alfred Stieglitz refused that fate. His camera did not freeze the world;...
Vetti, Flesh & Queer Rebellion: Lionel Wendt’s Erotic Ceylon
In the shadowed interstice between empire’s endgame and a nation’s awakening, Lionel Wendt conjured a Ceylon ungoverned by imperial cartography....
Henry Scott Tuke and the Queer Erotics of Edwardian Sunlight
Henry Scott Tuke's spent afternoons painting secrets in plain sight. Not whispered—just unsaid. Salt-damp bodies along the Cornish coast, young...
