Poet Janet Kaplan begrudgingly returned to Facebook at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, hoping to stay connected with friends in the poetry community. She was still active on the platform in 2025 when something ...
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Arts editor Morgan Laurens interviews artists from around the world.
Quinn Keck: ‘All Models Are Wrong; Some Are Useful’
When a person is born, Aristotle said, their mind is like a white sheet of paper ready to be written on. Plato, his teacher and chief intellectual rival, rejected the concept of tabula rasa, Latin ...
Blooming Against the Bayonet: Jane Ingram Allen Turns ‘Guns Into Flowers’
In the late 1960s, during the height of the Vietnam War, 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir stood before a wall of soldiers with sheathed bayonets at a protest in Washington, D.C., holding a single chrysanthemum. Her ...
The ttdkwta Universe: ‘Life Is Beautiful and Tragic at the Same Time’
“One day we didn’t exist; the next, we did. We just sort of ‘woke up.’ We do not know where we come from, what our purpose is, or where we belong. So we—those that don’t ...
Matthew Mazzotta: Public Art, For the People
As a young, broke art school student, Matthew Mazzotta and his friends would cruise Chicago’s inner-city alleys, searching for discarded furniture to toss in the back of his van. “Everything I built at that point ...
‘Born From the Earth’: How Sculptor Ava Blitz Brings Nature Into Public Art
About 20 minutes outside Philadelphia, on a half-acre patch of land, four cement “bundt cakes”—dyed baby blue, cream, and red—are stacked on top of a bowed spire, like an offering to the gods. It would ...
When the Sun Stands Still: MASARY Studios on Ritual, Rhythm, and Cosmic Harmony
One December, on the longest night of the year, visitors to Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery were greeted by a thousand shimmering points of light scattered across a wooded dell. Stand motionless on a nearby platform, ...
In Every Rupture, a Poem: Paige L. Morris on the Beauty of Impermanence
Q+Art is a series featuring the artists behind our First Friday Exhibitions. Today, we’re talking with Philadelphia-based artist Paige L. Morris, whose work is featured in our May 2026 exhibition, Modern Love: Reflections on Intimacy ...
Carol Scavotto: Silk, Sensuality, and Subversion
Q+Art is a series featuring the artists behind our First Friday Exhibitions. Today, we’re talking with Rhode Island-based artist Carol Scavotto, whose work is featured in our May 2026 exhibition, Modern Love: Reflections on Intimacy ...
10 Artists Open Up About Their Mental Health
Ever feel like bugs are crawling all over your skin? You’re not alone. Lately, it seems like the world is pressing in from all sides. Social media melodrama, endless dopamine loops, and the same headlines ...
‘No Real Solution Is Found’: Sarah Buckius on Technology, Women’s Labor, and the Unfinished Work of Caregiving
Q+Art is a series featuring the artists behind our First Friday Exhibitions. Today, we’re talking with Santa Cruz-based artist Sarah Buckius, whose work is featured in our March 2026 exhibition, Out of Bounds: Pushing the ...
Is AI the New Muse? Artists Weigh the Future of Creative Work
Strike up a conversation with an artist about artificial intelligence, and you’ll probably find them firmly planted in one of two camps: eager experimenters or conscientious objectors who boycott the tools entirely, refusing on ethical, ...
What Does It Mean to Be Creative in the Age of AI?
Artificial intelligence is not necessarily at odds with art. In fact, many artists have been exploring its possibilities in ever more imaginative ways. New York-based multimedia artist David Held is one such pioneer, integrating AI ...
Kacie Lees: Neon’s Rising Star
Q+Art is a series featuring the artists behind our First Friday Exhibitions. Today, we’re talking with Brooklyn-based artist Kacie Lees, whose work is featured in our March 2026 exhibition, Out of Bounds: Pushing the Lines ...
Finding Home in Unexpected Places: Malti B Lee on Tracing Global Roots Through Austin’s Architecture
Q+Art is a series featuring the artists behind our First Friday Exhibitions. Today, we're talking with Austin-based artist Malti B Lee, whose work is featured in our January 2026 exhibition, Lone Star: New Takes on ...