Picturing Corruption
In partnership with local education officials, Transparency International Pakistan asked children across the nation to depict corruption in a drawing competition to show a “Child’s View of Corruption.”
Galleries
A collection of 422 issues
Foreclosed
Using a Renaissance practice of wood inlay known as marquetry, Alison Elizabeth Taylor reproduces scenes of foreclosure in Las Vegas.
Boy, O Boy
Like the pensive, cautionary nature-boys in her new paintings, Julie Heffernan cobbles together tokens and symbols to create a natural world as beautiful as it is gentle.
Lists
Manuscript archivist Liza Kirwin raked together an exhaustive pile of historically significant notes, grocery lists, and romantic ephemera from some of the 20th century’s greatest artists.
Boonville, USA
Photographer Timothy Briner spent seven years on “Boonville,” which takes place in six towns in the U.S.—six different towns named Boonville where Briner lived for periods of time and shot portraits of private lives, overpasses, and wrestling squads.
Finders Keepers
Scott Zieher doesn’t have to look hard for art—it just has a way of showing up. That’s what happened with this album he found of photos from the gay biker scene of the 1970s. Zieher’s discovery reminds us that treasures, like subcultures, exist right under our noses—not disguised, just overlooked.
Bird Watching
Paula McCartney’s portraits of fake birds in real landscapes are not digitally enhanced, but they do trick the eye.
The Twitter Issue
Twitter's not just the next step in online communication or social networking, according to Francesco Masci—it's the next step in civilization.
Hypermarket
French photographer Denis Darzacq reminds us of the freedom that escaping materialism brings, even when we are left to wonder: Are these figures floating or falling?
Little Beasts
The impish, chaotic boys in Maximilian Toth’s paintings are Maurice Sendak’s Max, the neighborhood playground prince, and your nephew who pretends kitchen utensils are guns.