Read Issue 1: Novelties

The "fileteado porteño" is a design style characterized by extravagant flourishes, nature motifs, and Argentine national symbols. It adorns the city of Buenos Aires, from decorated buses to business signs and graffiti. The style was once on the cusp of disappearing, but mentorship and expansion strategies brought it back.

Genevieve analyzes the mysterious composition of Ivan Aivazovsky’s "Lunar Night on the Black Sea" (1859) and its connections to Russia's shifting identity during the nineteenth century.

Right on the tail of the white-glove Pauline Karpidas sale in London, Sotheby’s offered an impressive 146-lot live sale in Milan on 25 September that reached astonishing results.

The role of greed has been instrumental in the consumption and creation of art for years, from Dutch still lives to modern bidding wars. We must face the consequences of making art a luxury.

A closer look at the lives of designers Ray and Charles Eames, a couple that contributed some of America’s most iconic furniture designs and commentary on mid-century America.

Unearthing mysticism in a 1970 Arbus photograph using John Szarkowski’s concepts of the thing itself, the detail, and the vantage point.