Once the World’s Fair
Once upon a time you needed to visit the latest World’s Fair to see what was new—and the structures and relics of those events still live among us, even if they’re treated like so many architectural burger wrappers.
Galleries
A collection of 422 issues
The Notion of Family
LaToya Ruby Frazier may be right that there is dysfunction in every home, but not every tense mother-daughter relationship receives such meditative and artistic consideration. The photographs she makes with her mother remind us just how unfamiliar we can be sometimes with those we call family
Sites of Impact
Stan Gaz brings together 85 gorgeous portraits of “impact sites”—pockmarks on the Earth marking where the planet’s been struck by meteorite fragments.
Blind Prom
These photos from the prom for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired trigger one of those reality-check moments for sighted audiences—of course visually impaired students go to the prom, and you'll recognize your own prom night in these celebratory pictures.
Teen and Transgender Comparative Study
The series is a correlation of two stages of transformation, pairing teen girls (12–14) with like adult male-to-female transsexuals.
At the Lake
Heading to the lake this summer? You may want to rent a kayak for the best views. According to Amy Bennett, a return to the great outdoors is another opportunity to peek in on the neighbors, and it just might have something to teach us about human nature.
White Space
Painter Silke Schöner turns landscapes on their heads with extraction, paving fields and sky with empty plains of space that we can fill in.
Begin the Bauhauroque
Paul Laffoley’s paintings of time machines, prayer devices, and maps of the cosmos take inspiration from such sources as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his own encounters with UFOs.
The Great Indoors
Though the people Barkley Hendricks paints are attractive, laid back, and worldly, don’t be fooled: These images have none of the indifference coolness implies.
Ирку́тск
Carson Ellis mostly divides her time between book illustration and art for the Decemberists. Here she illustrates an imaginary trip Russia, after a trip to the real one.