How Candy Conquered Halloween
As a fan of Samira Kawash’s “Candy Professor” blog, I was delighted when she came out with a book on the social history of candy in the U.S. When The Weekly Standard asked me to… Read More »How Candy Conquered Halloween
As a fan of Samira Kawash’s “Candy Professor” blog, I was delighted when she came out with a book on the social history of candy in the U.S. When The Weekly Standard asked me to… Read More »How Candy Conquered Halloween
Can we agree that politicians sometimes do absurd things? A group of creatives thinks so, and they’re taking aim at America’s latest anti-abortion stances with Congress Sutra, a satirical book that turns anti-abortion politicians into… Read More »Congress Uncovered: The Kama Sutra parody designed to make sex a turn-off
Select Your Favorite New Visual Artist! Community Choice Voting Open Through November 8, 2024 Beginning in 1998 and running through 2017, the PRINT New Visual Artists competition identified some of the best, most inventive young… Read More »PRINT New Visual Artists: Meet the Class of 2024
But it is often in the gutter. Campaign garbage in the form of recyclable, hateful, divisive and derisive language has long been a nasty part of American political discourse, but to borrow from the hyperbole… Read More »The Daily Heller: This Election is Not Yet in the Bag
Artist-owned cooperative Stocksy has spotted a shift towards analogue tools and authenticity among creatives and is responding accordingly. Should we all follow suit? Since creative professionals started moving from analogue tools to digital ones in… Read More »Stocksy’s Aaron Bergunder on how creatives are ditching polished perfection
Eternal Recurence by Filip Hodas. Photography by Tomáš Slavík This year’s edition of Prague-based digital arts festival Signal uncovered some big ideas – not least, that a public artwork’s success comes down to one of… Read More »What is art? What makes it good? And other things Signal festival makes you think about