Creative

In the past few weeks, Will Welch has taken a bit of flack for letting Beyoncé promote her new whiskey label on the cover of GQ’s October issue, with an interview that one X user… Read More »Smiling Through the Apocalypse | Will Welch

The narrative is all too common in this country: an old building steeped in history gets demolished, only to be replaced by a cookie-cutter “luxury” apartment complex, filled with grey flooring and chrome cabinetry. There’s… Read More »Denver’s NO VACANCY Lets Artists Write the Last Chapter of Buildings Set for Demolition

I worked with Frances Jetter when I was art director for the New York Times Op-Ed page (now Opinion) and the New York Times Book Review (still Book Review). She was among a small but… Read More »The Daily Heller: They All Came to Look for America

In the nearly forty years since Cheryl D. Miller took the design industry to task, asking why the design industry hasn’t made better use of Black talent (her 2016 follow-up is here), the number of… Read More »“Be Better than the History I’ve Traveled,” a Chat with Cheryl D. Miller

Toronto-based Anita Kunz has employed a distinct contemporary classical style of painting to create some caustic caricature and satire of the late 20th and 21st centuries (though to see her, you wouldn’t know she’s been… Read More »The Daily Heller: Women Who Matter