Arts + Culture

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Rick Poynor|Essays

The Hotel that Dreamed It Was a Museum

The Walpole Bay Hotel: Living Museum, junk-clogged bane of hotel inspectors, or Wunderkammer?

Observed|Essays

A Nearly Perfect Book

The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era.

Observed|Photos

The Art Toast Project

Culinary innovator Ida Frosk depicts the works of famous cultural icons on pieces of toast.

John Thackara|Essays

Between Sorrel And Supertanker

John Thackara reviews the recent Doors of Perception xskool.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Collage Now, Part 2: Cut and Paste Culture

Cut-and-paste culture is booming and collage-making is rampant: paper-based, digital, and all points between.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Rural Vacation | Urban Questions

Driving Vermont's rural routes I began to wonder: Why does this town get a brand-new energy-efficient supermarket, and that one a minimart-slash-video store-slash-bank?

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Folk Funeraria of the South

Accidental Mysteries for August 18th focuses on folk funeraria of the South.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Stitching Stories

Accidental Mysteries for August 11, 2013 focuses on Jane Waggoner Deschner and her stitched stories.

Rick Poynor|Essays

David Maisel and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel’s photographs are visions of the Earth as we have never seen it full of beauty and terror.

Observed|Photos

Perspective-Localized Art

Swiss artist Felice Varini recently installed a new perspective-localized street art piece in Paris.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Collection de l’Art Brut

It was Jean Dubuffet who coined the term Art Brut to describe art that was raw, pure and untainted by rules or schooling. This was art that emerged from the minds of madness — or genius.