Leann Davis Alspaugh is managing editor of The Hedgehog Review.
Herbert Hoover’s US Food Administration did more than simply change Americans’ eating habits.
Does the Meta-Birkin seriously compromise consumers’ ability to separate the NFT from the real Hermès bag?
The face we present to the world is the primary signifier we possess.
Raw, edgy, polemical—and you can only get it at Attica. Meet the inventor of jailhouse comedy.
Lady Gaga keeps it classy at Super Bowl LI.
My last day of freedom was January 24, 2002.
As we remember the Challenger disaster, let’s not forget the engineers who tried to convince NASA not to send up the Space Shuttle on a cold morning thirty years ago.
The wonder of Tom Wesselmann's 1962 collage, Still Life No. 1
Using photos from old magazines makes for a vulnerable working surface, since the paper usually is old, yellowed, and somewhat brittle. I like it that this quality emphasizes the human and personal vulnerability that exists as a subject in my work.
What began as one of the most popular forms of menswear has now morphed into the kindler, gentler uniform. First, there was blue collar. Then white collar. Now there’s soft collar.
Summer reads from THR staff and friends.
New Orleans, where spectacle and transgression are part of the infrastructure, is the ideal place to conduct completely unscientific research on tattooing.
Is plain packaging for cigarettes a barrier to trade?
If technology rarely delivers on its claims, then need we waste so much as a backward glance as we dash ahead to the next digital milestone?
Cubism’s stylistic hegemony—the dislocated binaries, the tactile surfaces in a two-dimensional work, and the distortions—interferes with what we want to understand about what few clues we can decipher.
Taylor Swift’s recent trademarking frenzy is another example of how artists are scrambling to maintain control over their work in the face of the digital tsunami.
When El Greco heard the insultingly low valuation for his work, he launched a long and bitter court battle that quietly changed the perception of artists and art in Spain.
To reduce a museum experience to the laws of supply and demand devalues not only the art itself but also the curators’ years of education and expertise—connoisseurship on which we rely in institutions that position themselves as cultural arbiters.
Pantone's Marsala is no mauve, but it does reflect our present cultural mood.
Returning to base, Davis and the other pilots heard their orders for the next day: Attack Kiska Harbor with everything they had regardless of the weather.
That Edvard Munch never met Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the great missed encounters of the modern age.
Whole Foods Market is tired of your “whole paycheck” jokes. Recently, “America’s healthiest grocery store” launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign titled Values Matter.
A monkey's selfie has done more than just raise awareness about an endangered species.
One person’s trigger alert is another person’s censorship.
Though careful observation comes first, my process involves research: detecting palimpsests in the architecture or observing how people move and inhabit the place.