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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...

New! Karl Blossfeldt's expressive plant portraiture 🌿

The original architect of everything is nature herself, and nobody knew that better than German photographer and sculptor Karl Blossfeldt. Humankind has, after all, been taking cues from the natural world since we started carving its representation in stone. From the 5th century BC acanthus leaf ...

Art world drama and seemingly superhuman "sea women"

We have three tales for thee: some 18th century drama, some 20th century drama, and the foraging tradition of a matriarchal society. Read on!

Horizons—As far as the eye can see

There's staring into the middle distance...and then there's staring into the horizon. Whether you're peering into a sunrise or sunset, the ocean or an expansive field, there's nothing quite like being able to see, well, as far as the eye can see.