Theatre
The Case for Seeing a Play You Know Nothing About
We research everything before we go, and arrive at the theatre already told what to think. The best nights begin when yo…
Photography
Photography Stories
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Art
How to Look at a Painting for Longer Than Ten Seconds
Most of us glance at a painting and move on. The pleasure begins only when you decide to stay, and looking is a skill yo…
Culture
What It Actually Means to Have Taste
Taste is treated as something you either have or you don't. In fact it is built, slowly, by paying attention to what gen…
Art
Keep a Sketchbook You Never Show Anyone
You do not need to be an artist to keep a sketchbook. Drawing badly, privately, teaches you to see in a way nothing else…
Photography
Why the Best Photographs Leave Something Out
A camera records everything in front of it. A photographer decides what to exclude, and that decision is where the pictu…
Design
Why the Best Typography Is the Kind You Never Notice
Good type does its work invisibly. When you can read a page for an hour without thinking about the letters, someone made…
Design
Good Design Is Mostly About Saying No
The hardest part of design is not adding the clever idea. It is removing everything that gets in its way.
Books
The Case for Rereading the Books You Love
We treat books as something to finish and move past. But the ones worth keeping change every time you return to them.