Tag: art

I think I bought Design as Art in 2020, during the first strange months of the pandemic, when Amazon deliveries were the only thing...

I recently bought Rainbow Dreams mostly because I wanted to know if a 256-page book could hold that much color without collapsing into visual...

A friend of mine lent me his copy of The Art Book three weeks ago and told me, half-joking, "Just don't spill coffee on...

Acrylic paint markers are having a strange moment. Everybody suddenly owns a set, but almost nobody uses them correctly. I tested nineteen acrylic paint...

Substack quietly crossed 50 million active subscriptions this year, with 5 million of those paid. That number matters less than what it represents. Not...

I spent three evenings with Cat before I trusted myself to write about it. That is not typical for me. Most art books get...

David Hockney died on June 11, 2026. He was 88 years old. For me personally, that news hit differently than most obituaries do. Hockney...

Summer is the one season that actually gives you permission to read slowly. Not the frantic, bookmark-everything-and-come-back-to-it reading we do the rest of the...

The question sounds almost too simple: where does art come from? Yet the answer has eluded critics, philosophers, and curious readers for centuries. Adam...

Machines generate millions of images per day. Anyone with a browser can produce a technically flawless illustration in under ten seconds. And yet, at...

Traditional drawing never went away. It just got smarter. While AI-generated imagery dominates creative feeds and digital tools grow more sophisticated each year, professional...

Why Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act Might Be the Most Important Creativity Book of the Decade Rick Rubin does not make music. He makes space....