PS Picks: Geoff Dyer on the Photography of Garry Winogrand
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Hailu Mergia, once among the most beloved musicians in Ethiopia, spent the past two decades working as a cab driver in Washington, D.C. But he never stopped playing, and he's back at it again with a new album.
We always assumed humans were the only species to create art. It now seems we were wrong.
People visit the exhibition "Haneen, a Collective Work of Lebanese and Syrian Artists on the Impact of War on Childhood," in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on February 20th, 2018.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
New research finds medical students who enjoy music and art have qualities that make them better, and less-stressed, doctors.
New research finds we can often identify a song's intended purpose, even when it's a product of a distant culture.
New research suggests the ability to play an instrument well is surprisingly sexy.
New research finds visual artists do not do their best work during periods of bereavement.
New research suggests vivid imagery is key to poetry's aesthetic appeal.
Reflecting on a painting or poem can inspire innovative solutions to business-related problems.
The Overpass Light Brigade first made social justice messages go viral in 2011—today, it continues to help activists realize their collective power.
New research finds it stimulates a pleasant form of mind-wandering.
Members of the Edenbridge Bonfire Society unveil an effigy of film producer Harvey Weinstein on November 1st, 2017, in Edenbridge, England.
Humans are wary of computer-generated art, but new research suggests our views on the subject are malleable.
New research finds observational skills learned at the museum can be easily applied to clinical work.
A woman hasn't topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts in nearly a year—a streak unseen since the 1960s.
New research finds paintings are judged as aesthetically superior if they are hung above eye level.
The Ukrainian artist Miso captures the Chernobyl tragedy in millions of pinholes—creating maps of trauma that feel at once fragile and powerful, ephemeral and enduring.
Surprised museum researchers find many visitors snap photographs of themselves with the masterpieces.
Noah Davis talks to Hank Willis Thomas about the value of an MFA, the problems and advantages of living in New York as an artist, and what banking and art have in common.
As with many cultural artifacts, the Japanese have taken the truck and expressed it, enlarged it, raised it to what we might consider an architectural form.
Noah Davis talks to Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about skipping class, the value of a liberal arts education, and the most difficult language to learn.