Required Reading

This week, Karl Marx was wrong about “primitive communism,” Zoomers say they’ve had enough of TikTok, and great news: Time travel is within the realm of possibility.

What Makes Medieval Art So Meme-able?

All over Instagram, medieval imagery has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious, depending on your sense of humor.

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios from Nashville, Long Island, Quebec, and Philadelphia.

A Working-Class Artist Is Something to Be

Since 2019, Art Workers’ Inquiry has been developing methods for everyday art workers to speak openly on capitalism and colonialism in the art world.

Artists Go DIY in the Desert

A tight-knit community of art entrepreneurs in Albuquerque launched their businesses in the wake of the pandemic.

Required Reading

This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.

The Beauty of the Ephemeral World

Whereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible.