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Welcome to The Art Issue
I can hear you now. “The Weekly’s selling out, brah!” And, indeed, you’d have every right to be startled by our fancy cover. But...
Black-Eyed Susans: Murder by Flowers
You can’t write a suspense novel with a female protagonist these days without being compared to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’ The...
Keep Artful Village Weird
While walking through rows of paintings at an Austin art show with his wife three years ago, Darren Houk was struck with inspiration. Soaking...
Is Art Worth It?
corrected: Aug. 19.
It’s the middle of summer, and most summertime exhibits at the museums and galleries are about to come down. Artists have retreated...
Bart to the Future
The Simpsons was hardly the first cartoon to make humorous references to both highbrow and lowbrow culture, but the breakneck pace of its in-jokes...
Going Native
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is hard to get to right now because of the extensive remodeling that the venue is undergoing,...
Well Don
Reading Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a strangely unsettling experience. It was written when the novel form was just being invented, which is...
Scots Wha Hae
A show like Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces From the National Gallery of Scotland doesn’t have much of a theme to coalesce around other than,...
A Tragedy of Errors
Darlie Routier. If you remember her at all, you’re probably seeing the same mental image that most of us have: a young, attractive blonde...
Snow White and the Half-Naked Man
Even during Anton Chekhov’s life, people were parodying his plays. They’re easily identifiable targets, with their Russian aristocrats sitting in drawing rooms with their...
