Celebrating progress through artistic expression
An exhibit on display in New York shows MFA students reinterpreting past presidents' tenures for the present.
A new exhibition of Richard Avedon's photography shows off the sartorial choices of activists like Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg.
Warren Berger's next book will look to improve the very act of asking.
A conversation with the influential cartoonist about his new, career-spanning anthology
A new exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City uses technology without going too far.
Five innovations that transformed our visual language.
Milton Glaser's 'In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another' shows what he's learned in his decades-long career.
A conversation about the blockbuster film's visual references, from Nazi architecture to Frank Gehry
Identical illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso are winning praise by working together.
Doug Aitken's 'Song 1' transforms the Hirshhorn building into a sonic and visual installation.
A historical defense of architecture's most unfairly stereotyped form
The Reinhold Brown collection in New York City provides a tour of poster history.
The Washington Spectator's redesign has been a long time coming.
Christoph Niemann's 'Abstract City' captures life in a metropolis through clever visual gags.
How an early-twentieth-century French banker shaped your Instagram photos
Which film most effectively captured time and place in every track suit and vintage piece of furniture?
The new edition of an annual graphic-arts compendium hints at a renaissance in the medium.
Rick Genest transformed himself into an image of death—and infiltrated a culture that worships youth.
The dazzling 'Cyclepedia' app shows the digital potential for visual books.