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Ebony Flowers’s A Sketch of Sunday

The award-winning cartoonist reflects on her first exposure to art.

The Shot That Doesn’t Belong: Robert Frank’s Found Film Footage

Curators and filmmakers talk about the never-before-seen footage Frank left behind.

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Sam Szabo’s Broad Gestures

The cartoonist and her alter-ego take a stroll through the Museum and reflect on drawing and gender as “arts of reduction.”

Allure and Endure

Why does the mythic universe of Mesoamerican cultures continue to fascinate artists?

Create the World You Don’t Have Access To

The artist P. Staff describes what moves them about the dolls, diaries, and dancing of downtown New York legend Greer Lankton.

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Beverly Buchanan

In an interview from 1993, the artist talks about how her drawings of shacks are really portraits of people.

Forrest Bess: A Fisherman Artist’s Spiritual Abstraction

Art historian Cyle Metzger speaks about his personal, profound attraction to Bess’s work.

Weaving the Universe: Otobong Nkanga on Cadence

Nkanga fuses tapestry, sculpture, sound, and poetry to explore the rhythms of life, weaving together galaxies, ecosystems, and emotions.

How to See

How to See an Exquisite Corpse

The famous Surrealist game has taken on a life of its own over 100 years.

Magazine Podcast

The Curious Case of Meret Oppenheim’s Furry Teacup

A hundred years later, a Surrealist artwork continues to inspire curiosity in all who encounter it.

Drawn to MoMA

Dash Shaw’s Scroll—Buzz

What makes art scary? The cartoonist explores this question over drinks.

Flashy Objects: Rebecca Allen Revisits Girl Lifts Skirt

A trailblazer in computer animation talks about creating a new art form in a male-dominated field.