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New! JJ Manford’s debut is a portal into his colorful world 🎨

It’s sundown. You’re in France, or Italy, or maybe in the part of the American Southwest where lush forests abut foothills and mountain shears cut geometric shapes into soft vistas. The point is that you’re drinking in beauty, you’ve got a home with modern French doors, and a cat is present. Art...

In the studio with Jamie Pearl: Early inspo, NYFW assignments, syncing with her subject.

26 year-old New York City-based photographer Jamie Pearl’s piece Why not take a fashion risk elevates and points to one of the most seminal and profound parts of being not only an artist or creative person, but an individual: the second we decide to choose ourselves instead of fear. We sat down ...

New! Helena Wurzel answers the call to Do Something!

With Kamala Harris's campaign compositionally centered on Helena Wurzel's laptop and iPhone screens, Mental Load is the perfect answer to Harris's call to "Do Something!" —and we're proud to announce that it is 20x200's second benefit edition in support of Vote Forward.

New! Cats for Kamala 🐈

42 cats are depicted by painter Carl Kahler in our newest release, My Wife's Lovers. Victorian millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson, who commissioned this painting from Kahler in 1891, reportedly owned 350 cats (!!!) at one time—some today might have called her a "childless cat lady".

New! Jamie Pearl dares you to take a fashion risk 👠

We’ve all been there: standing in front of the mirror, turning this way and that, holding ten different outfits on hangers in front of our bodies and growing more unsure by the minute. Our debut edition with 26 year-old New York City-based photographer Jamie Pearl is the antidote to our worries—...

Put a bird on it 🐦

Is that wall over there blank? Put a bird on it! Avian art dates back for millennia (and birds are among the oldest living class of animals on earth—literally dinosaurs), and there's just about zero chance that birds as a subject won't continue to captivate artists and art lovers way into the fut...

Nature's surfaces: Recording organic textures.

Take some time this weekend to look around you as closely as Karl Blossfeldt did. Using unprecedented magnification (for the 1890s!!), he captured the minute details of plant surfaces—once he came across a specimen that piqued his interest, he felt obliged to return to that same spot for months ...

In the studio with Joan LeMay: Recent projects, challenges, and inspirations.

Portraitist and painter Joan LeMay infuses a tonic into her paintings: a warmth, openness and curiosity, and an unmatched exuberance. Viewing art as a soothing, healing force, she sees the act of communicating with the emotional and energetic core of her subjects, herself included, as one of conn...