Required Reading

This week, homeschooling’s seedy underbelly, penguins taking “microsleeps,” the history of hats, and why are TikTokers quitting vaping?

Nani Chacon Finds the Essence of Home

Her exhibition +Home+ is a mediation on notions of home through the lens of her ancestors, lived experience, and the legacies we leave.

What Makes a Drawing a Drawing?

What can drawing do that other mediums cannot, and when is it a preliminary sketch when is it a final product?

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in Buenos Aires, Ohio, Calabasas, and Ojai, California.

The Dance Between Manet and Degas

What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.

Required Reading

This week, a giant sand maze in Miami, how to free yourself from big tech, Eric Adams’s bad luck streak, the fringe benefits of near-sightedness, and more.