Required Reading

This week: Recreating Rubens’s studio, Brooklyn honors the legacy of rapper Ka, the largest map of the cosmos to date, Ratatouille in real life, and are video games art?

When Wildlife Imitates Art

See the images that won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award and the art historical references they remind us of.

David Baker’s Paintings About Seeing

He has taken appropriation art, which often consists of commonplace acts of citation, quotation, and parody, and set it in a new direction.

A View From the Easel

“If the landlord would allow me to install a shower, I would probably move in for real. Sadly, it’s a no-go.”