Arts + Culture

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Open Eye: The Home Collection of Ray Yoshida

Accidental Mysteries for September 29, 2013 focuses on the vast home collection of Chicago artist and teacher Ray Yoshida.

Stephen Dunn|Poetry

Promiscuity

A poem by Stephen Dunn.

Sara Ivry|Insights Per Minute

Sara Ivry on Language

Sara Ivry is the host of Vox Tablet, the weekly podcast of Tablet Magazine, and a writer who has contributed to the New York Times, Bookforum, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

Stephen Eskilson|Essays

Heteronormative Design Discourse

The question of sexual identity, a central focus of a great deal of thought in recent decades, has received scant attention in the design world.

Observed|Gallery

Seven Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

Popular Science's gallery of seven of the most fantastic anatomy drawings from the Middle Ages.

J.D. McClatchy|Insights Per Minute

J. D. McClatchy on Relationships

J. D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poetry and many texts for musical settings, including eight opera libretti.

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.