visual arts

August 16, 2024

Illustration depicting many samey, AI-looking images in a series of frames

Viewfinder

The DeLorean Owners Association Strikes a Pose

Cullen Murphy

September 2024 Issue

photo of group of croquet players with mallets and balls on green field

The Atlantic Daily

A Comedian Who Delivers Rapid-Fire Laughs

Stephanie Bai

July 28, 2024

Jacqueline Novak sits on a stool while performing her comedy routine

Art

The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem

Susan Tallman

July/August 2024 Issue

watercolor painting of potted plant with large leaves on small table with crooked framed painting above it of biblical scene

Books

A Powerful Indictment of the Art World

Bekah Waalkes

May 21, 2024

A marbled paint stroke obscuring a barn in a green field

Viewfinder

American Beauty

Tiya Miles

June 2024 Issue

photo of crowd of people holding up phones and tablets to take pictures of geyser spout

Books Briefing

‘An Entire Life Handed Over to Art’

Gal Beckerman

May 17, 2024

Ideas

The Art of Survival

Jennifer Senior

June 2024 Issue

black-and-white photo of woman with short dark hair smiling

Technology

The End of the ‘Photoshop Fail’

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

May 9, 2024

The painting "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" surrounded by Adobe Photoshop tools

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Limits of Utopia

Sam Fentress

May 9, 2024

Six mockups of different building plans and designs

Books Briefing

Reading as a Sensory Experience

Maya Chung

March 22, 2024

Health

The Pandemic’s ‘Ghost Architecture’ Is Still Haunting Us

Yasmin Tayag

February 29, 2024

An illustration of a tattered sticker with footprints and the text "keep your distance"

Art

The Disorienting Beauty of ‘Africa & Byzantium’

Susan Tallman

March 2024 Issue

two wooden painted images linked with a cord: image of saint holding a lance and riding a horse; gilded painting of Virgin and child

Viewfinder

Lost Photographs of Black America

Vann R. Newkirk II

March 2024 Issue

Black-and-white photograph of a couple holding each other on a crowded subway car

Art

A Trove of ‘Lost Basquiats’ Led to a Splashy Exhibition. Then the FBI Showed Up.

Bianca Bosker

March 2024 Issue

A man looking at a large portrait of Basquiat in museum gallery with two paintings hanging in the background.

Art

Camille Claudel’s ‘Revolt Against Nature’

Farah Peterson

January/February 2024 Issue

photo of sculpture of crouching woman seen from the back

Ideas

‘Post-Victimhood’ Storytelling

Thomas Chatterton Williams

November 25, 2023

A photo of Chase Hall sitting in front of paintings

Ideas

A Portrait of American Housing

Annie Lowrey

October 23, 2023

A house being towed on a truck bed along a western road surrounded by desert

The Wonder Reader

The Pleasures of Amateur Photography

Isabel Fattal

October 21, 2023

A crowd of people taking photos with smartphones

Technology

AI Is About to Photoshop Your Memories

Charlie Warzel

October 20, 2023

Family

You Can Learn to Be Photogenic

Michael Waters

October 20, 2023

A black-and-white portrait of a woman with a phone over her face

Viewfinder

August 2, 2023

a collage of images, including the bowler in MacDonald's painting and a despairing woman from another of his paintings

Culture

The Greatest Museum You’ve Never Heard Of

Cullen Murphy

July 7, 2023

A hand points to a light box with a Da Vinci drawing

Technology

The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

June 6, 2023

The Mona Lisa's eye peering out from a concentric series of gold frames, on a solid blue background.

Viewfinder

Street Photography From ’80s and ’90s New York

Peter L’Official

May 2023 Issue

photo of physical photo album open to spread with 10 photos of people in various groupings

The Atlantic Daily

Our Photo Editor’s Must-See Images

Isabel Fattal

March 24, 2023

Culture

Vermeer’s Daughter

Lawrence Weschler

March 20, 2023

Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" painting, with circles containing details from "Girl With a Red Hat" superimposed

Culture

The Strange Intimacy of New York City

Nicole Acheampong

March 15, 2023

On the left side of frame, three Black women stand together on the street; on the right, a blond woman walks by with a serious face, and a man's leg is in the background

Culture

What Ordinary Family Photos Teach Us About Ourselves

Syreeta McFadden

March 8, 2023

A woman sitting in a brown chair with her leg thrown over the arm holds a baby while looking at the camera.

Book Recommendations

Six Books That Will Change How You Look at Art

Farah Abdessamad

February 4, 2023

A group of bystanders look at a painting.

Ideas

Tyre Nichols Wanted to Capture the Sunset

Clint Smith

February 2, 2023

Ideas

The Man Whose Magazine Covers Changed America

Oliver Munday

November 21, 2022

Ideas

The Other Climate-Change Art Protest

Morgan Ome

November 20, 2022

People holding large red fabric tapestries in front of an oil field in Kern County, California.

Culture

The Art Exhibit for the Anti-Instagram Age

Rowan Moore Gerety

November 8, 2022

Walter De Maria's land-art installation, "The Lightning Field"

Sections

The Print Edition

Why Does AI Art Look Like That?

The DeLorean Owners Association Strikes a Pose

A Comedian Who Delivers Rapid-Fire Laughs

The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem

A Powerful Indictment of the Art World

American Beauty

‘An Entire Life Handed Over to Art’

The Art of Survival

The End of the ‘Photoshop Fail’

The Limits of Utopia

Reading as a Sensory Experience

The Pandemic’s ‘Ghost Architecture’ Is Still Haunting Us

The Disorienting Beauty of ‘Africa & Byzantium’

Lost Photographs of Black America

A Trove of ‘Lost Basquiats’ Led to a Splashy Exhibition. Then the FBI Showed Up.

Camille Claudel’s ‘Revolt Against Nature’

‘Post-Victimhood’ Storytelling

A Portrait of American Housing

The Pleasures of Amateur Photography

AI Is About to Photoshop Your Memories

You Can Learn to Be Photogenic

Confronting the Unbelievable

Edvard Munch Lightens Up

After Viewing the Bowling Match at Castlemary, Cloyne (1847)

The Greatest Museum You’ve Never Heard Of

The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything

Street Photography From ’80s and ’90s New York

Our Photo Editor’s Must-See Images

Vermeer’s Daughter

The Strange Intimacy of New York City

What Ordinary Family Photos Teach Us About Ourselves

Six Books That Will Change How You Look at Art

Tyre Nichols Wanted to Capture the Sunset

The Man Whose Magazine Covers Changed America

The Other Climate-Change Art Protest

The Art Exhibit for the Anti-Instagram Age