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Former U.S. President Barack Obama and artist Kehinde Wiley unveil Obama's portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on February 12th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

PS Picks: Nigerian Creatives and the Art Scene in West Africa

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.

Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

You Can’t Hurry Greatness

The careers of America's best songwriters suggest great art is the product of years of immersion in one's chosen field.

Tom Jacobs

Environment

How AirBnB Threatens Urban Creative Space

The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.

Kyle Chayka

Social Justice

Silicon Valley Is the Best and Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Art

When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.

Susie Cagle

Social Justice

Making Art Tied to Fewer Cognitive Problems in Old Age

A Mayo Clinic study finds decades spent on creative work pay off.

Tom Jacobs

Economics

How Do You Make a Living, Paleoartist?

Francie Diep talks to Jennifer Hall about illustrating animals that have been dead for a very, very long time.

Francie Diep

Environment

Artists in the Antarctic

For years, the National Science Foundation has been sending professional creatives to the icy south in an attempt to promote understanding of the least-explored land on Earth. Is it working?

Jillian Hinchliffe

Social Justice

How Do You Make a Living, Art Curator?

Kristin Sancken talks to Noah Davis about the difficulties of being friends with artists, making money at the curation game, and why shameless is the new humble.

Noah Davis

Social Justice

Are Artists Created in the (Testosterone-Rich) Womb?

New research suggests artists may begin their journey toward creative achievement before they are born.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Artists Working Solo Create the Finest Work—or So We Believe

New research suggests we consider the amount of effort that goes into making a work of art when we're evaluating it—and take off points for collaborations.

Tom Jacobs