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Martha Rich makes voting reminders + COVID safety look cool.

Martha Rich's floor design for Mural Arts' Space Pads project to encourage social distancing Martha Rich is our kind of rabble rouser, channeling her acerbic wit and aesthetic talent into happy-making art and do-gooder deeds. And she’s one productive sparkplug! Rich has kept the art coming from h...

One for the books: Anna Atkins @ NYPL closes soon.

This week we finally made it to the New York Public Library to see Blue Prints. Pro tip: don’t sleep on this exhibition! It features the work of pioneering photographer and scientist Anna Atkins, tapping into over a decade of research and showing off the abiding beauty of Atkins’ cyanotype image...

Art, exploration and activism with Los Angeleno Carolyn Castaño

Carolyn Castaño's piece, Heroine (After Policarpa Salavarrieta Jose Maria Espinosa), featured in her most recent solo show at Laband Art Gallery. Summer is Carolyn Castaño’s season. We’re saying that partly because the LA-based visual artist’s bright, passionate color palettes and energetic comp...

Our love letter to Jen Sanchez. (Shine on, you crazy diamond.)

One of the paintings in Jennifer Sanchez's latest series, Pattern Fuck. Put your shades on, collectors: we’re shinin’ our Artist Spotlight on loooongtime 20x200 artist, color connoisseur, and plucky, foulmouthed pattern master Jennifer Sanchez. A proud Lower East Sider and New York neighbor of...

This Newsletter Is (Not) a Planetarium

Anderson's new book is out! And you're gonna wanna go in... We couldn’t begin to imagine what it’d be like to take a behind-the-scenes tour of Kelli Anderson’s brain, but we can say unequivocally that it’d be full of surprises. A multi-talented, deep-thinking maker of creative magic, Anderson i...

The Deep Dark World of Roger Ballen

Culprit by Roger Ballen It’s not unusual to have a heightened awareness of death and creepiness this time of year. Perhaps it’s the decay of summer’s fecundity, the shorter days, the waning light, or the advancing chill. And of course there’s Halloween, just a few days away. Whatever the case, ...