Katharine Schwab
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Jeff Chiu / AP Will Toys Ever Go Beyond Blue and Pink?
Products marketed to children are more divided by gender stereotypes than ever, but the Internet is increasingly offering alternatives to Hot Wheels and Barbies.
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Ramiro Gomez Documenting Los Angeles’s Near-Invisible Workers
The artist Ramiro Gomez revises images of the city’s most luxurious domestic settings by inserting the housekeepers, gardeners, and caregivers who maintain them.
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Romel Sanchez / Flickr Literary Doodling’s Step Into the Future
Is a digital Moleskine still a Moleskine?
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Javier Vinuela / AP For the Love of Bad Art
It’s a #fail, captured in paint.
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Manuja Waldia / Penguin Shakespeare’s 21st-Century Makeover
The new designs for the book covers of the Bard's plays have a minimalist, modern ethos.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The End of China’s ‘Weird’ Architecture
The government is cutting down on the country’s more bizarre buildings, which for years aimed to flaunt its wealth and cosmopolitan tastes.
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Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero)" … Fighting the Under-Representation of Women in the Arts
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Pixar Why Short Films Are Still Thriving
Though the medium is no longer mainstream, the Internet has given filmmakers the space to challenge Hollywood’s creative shortcomings.
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The Renwick Gallery Art for Instagram’s Sake
Spectacular, immersive exhibitions are drawing huge crowds, but are they changing the museum experience?
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Mary Mihelic and David Gleeson Can Art Trump Trump?
Two artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views.
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Marcos Brindicci / Reuters Taking Literature to the Streets
From vending machines to coffee sleeves, a number of projects around the world are using guerrilla marketing tactics to promote reading.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP The Best of 2015's Best of Lists
Standouts from this year’s December pop-culture roundups
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Mark Blinch / Reuters A Cultural History of Rock-Paper-Scissors
How the ancient game went from playground decision-maker to an Internet phenomenon
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Jay Paul / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Highbrow Ink
Tattoos are seeing growing acceptance in the fine-art world, but the once-subversive 1,000-year-old art form doesn’t fit in so neatly.
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David Mercado / Reuters The Internet Isn't Available in Most Languages
Despite all the hype about how it has connected the world, the web is more insular than you might think.
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Pentagram The Art of Pot Packaging
Leafs by Snoop is using design to make marijuana appeal to upscale consumers.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters A Country Created Through Music
Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union. Can it open up to the world and keep its revolutionary musical tradition intact?
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Short Édition The Short-Story Vending Machine
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Sandow Birk American Qur’an Makes a Sacred Text Familiar
The artist Sandow Birk has created a illuminated manuscript of Islam’s holy book that juxtaposes its writings with pictures of American life.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters Gaudí’s Basilica: Almost Finished After 132 Years
132 years later, Barcelona’s fantastical Sagrada Família is approaching the last stage of its construction.
