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New! Salad witches 🥗

Jen here on the very precipice of salad season to introduce a fascinating Vintage Edition by the groundbreaking artist Johannes Toorop. Poster for Delft Salad Oil (Salad Witches) was commissioned and conceived as an advertising poster, but ultimately its influence extended well beyond its origina...

Our toes meet the power of the ocean 🌊

When does beach season start? Whenever you want it to. For us New Yorkers, that’s pretty much now. Boardwalks, sand fleas, sunburns, slightly smushed deli sandwiches and lemonade (or rosé), drippy sunscreen—and then the WATER. That first dip in the ocean each season is magical.

Sitting, waiting, wishing 🪑

You’re gonna want to sit for this. Today we’re talking about that activity you do without thinking much of it—and sometimes for hours and hours. You might be doing it right now. It’s called sitting.

New! (and NSFW-ish) A Boucher, a memoir + much joie.

Not-just-any-Tuesday greetings, collectors! Jen here to enthusiastically introduce today’s very special edition, which we’re launching in support and celebration of my dear friend Glynnis MacNichol’s new memoir. I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is a luminous account of her adventures in Paris just...

Let’s go! ✈️🚆🚗

How will you be traveling this summer? Mind you, by traveling we mean anything from flying across the Atlantic to biking around your city. Summer adventures can become draining quickly, especially when getting there feels like a chore, rather than part of the adventure

Different (pen) strokes for different (illustrator) folks

There are as many styles of illustration as there are things to illustrate. Beyond any one artist’s individual signature exists the genre, culture, and prevailing trends in which they’re working. Illustration is a call-and-response process designed to more kaleidoscopically transmit the idea behi...

New! Flowers, fashion, and vintage flair. 🌼

No wonder, then, that our newest Vintage Edition, Woman in wide dress, garland in hands, anonymous, c. 1910 - c. 1920 is a piece with so many seemingly disparate visual motifs. The garland of electric blooms and high-chroma ovular shapes encircling the girlish subject don’t only impart sinuous mo...

For the love of science 🔬

Grab your microscope! Today we’re taking a close look at art that investigates scientific concepts and processes. Art and science are very closely linked, and in many ways, the scientific process has similarities to the artistic process.