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Endless Incentive: Jemima Kirke Talks Wide-Eyed Innocence and Allowing Everything to Inspire Something

Abby RingiewiczJuly 20, 2020

There’s an involuntary elegance about artist Jemima Kirke—in her speech, in her movements—that breathes midmorning Sunday: unhurried and fluid and assured and stoic.

Artist Julia Wright Culls the Tradition of Weaving In Carefully Considered Works

Sasha Douglas-NaresMay 24, 2019

Craftsmanship is supposedly lost, but artist Julia Wright succeeds at reviving it through her carefully considered works that cull the tradition of weaving.

Luna Ikuta’s Simple, Practical, and Elegant Artistic Expression

Samantha GradJune 19, 2018

Luna Ikuta's creative output, a combination of industrial design, sculpture, installation, and video aims to heighten the way we interact with objects around us.

Sasha Gordon’s Paintings Are Heavily Steeped In Her Exploration of Identity

Conor HudnutJanuary 16, 2018

We spoke to Sasha Gordon about abstraction, her artistic heroes, and what keeps her hopeful about painting in a world that seems to be increasingly digital.

Fear Not, Publishers: Print is not dead. Unattractive print is dead.

amadeusmagMay 12, 2014

Fear not, publishers: print is not dead. Unattractive print is dead. RISD Museum presents Graphic Design: Now in Production, an art exhibition displaying new-age graphic design and the mediums with which it’s utilized.