Arts & Culture
Rendering Dreams in Art
South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
New Faces
Steven Coit's portraits diversify Harvard's walls, and the 1947 football team defies racism.
Homeless Artists Respond to Stereotypes
Paintings by homeless artists in New Jersey respond to the social perception of homeless people as cold and incompetent.
A Lens on History
Photographer Susan Meiselas’s quest to understand via images. With audio from the interview.
Tropical Abstractions
Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.
by Craig Lambert
Urban Utopias
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
by John S. Rosenberg
Painting with Gravity
This video, shot in the studio of painter George Oommen, explores Oommen's distinctive dripping technique.
Real Fashion Police
Should U.S. fashion designers enjoy the same copyright protection as fellow creative artists—and their European counterparts?
by Craig Lambert
Click and Ka-ching
Corporate culture embraces photography.
by Christopher Reed
Highbrow Lingerie
Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.
New Ancient Sculpture
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.
by Paul Gleason