Leanne Shapton

A New Leaf

A dispatch from the Art Editor

On the Gray Lakeshore

A dispatch from the Art Editor

The Type Pool

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Ways of Seeing

“My work always follows one rule: make images that remind the viewer they are images.”

How the Sun Rose

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Crossing to Safety

Diana Nyad has an astonishing ability to do unfathomably difficult, even terrifying athletic feats, and, like many athletes, she did them in the aftermath of abuse.

Over Donner Pass

A dispatch from the Art Editor

La Parisienne

“The best way to learn to draw is to look at the world with an endless curiosity.”

After a Fashion

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Best in Show

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Tulips!

A dispatch from the Art Editor

The Forms of the Tools

“When students ask me today how they can find their style, I propose they put their computers and digital drawings pads aside and discover what happens with their own hands and bodies, with all the attendant mistakes and flaws.”

Unfamiliar Colors

A dispatch from the Art Editor

The Snowy Day

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Everyone, Together

A dispatch from the Art Editor

The Advent Calendar

A dispatch from the Art Editor

A Winter Person

“I work from home, which I have done for most of my artistic career. I need to be alone and enjoying the silence in order to work.”

Inexorable Motion

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Drawing from Life

“The human figure seems to me the ultimate subject of art.”

The Coming Fall

A dispatch from the Art Editor