visual arts

November 6, 2022

Ideas

Just How Safe Is Great Art?

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

October 17, 2022

Just Stop Oil activists in front of paintings

Culture

Depicting Injustice

Oliver Munday

October 12, 2022

MR WASH sits in a chair facing the camera, with a solemn expression. The room around him is covered in artwork.

Viewfinder

A Bygone Boston

Eric Moskowitz

November 2022 Issue

black-and-white photo of Boston's Washington Street Elevated in the 1980s with Dover station exit, diner with "Luncheon" neon sign, wood-paneled station wagon

Ideas

The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art

Paul Szynol

October 1, 2022

An illustration of Andy Warhol holding a camera with a copyright symbol in place of the lens

Culture

A More Complete Archive of the American South

Casey Gerald

September 14, 2022

A young woman stands outside a wood house with her hands on the porch frame looking at the camera

Viewfinder

The Angels of Lviv

Linda Kinstler

October 2022 Issue

photo detail of antique painting of a face with blue eyes, obscured by a grid of packing tape stuck directly to painting

Newsletters

The Power of the Black Portrait

Imani Perry

August 5, 2022

Books

How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped

Hugh Eakin

July 12, 2022

Press Room

National Portrait Gallery and The Atlantic Announce “Perspectives: The Atlantic’s Writers at the National Portrait Gallery”

June 29, 2022

Books

The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere

Kristen Martin

June 21, 2022

A photo showing visitors to the Mall of America, people in line to buy tickets, and a yellow-and-blue ride in the background

Newsletters

What the Viral Gun Photographer Has to Say About His Subjects

Charlie Warzel

June 1, 2022

Books

Don’t Look Away From Philip Guston’s Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen

Lily Meyer

May 24, 2022

An image of the artist Philip Guston superimposed on a detail of one of his paintings

Culture

The Seminal TV Series That Changed How We See

R.E. Hawley

May 10, 2022

GIF illustration of classical art portraits and blinking eyes

Ideas

What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities

Jacob Anbinder

May 2, 2022

A historic door knocker under the inverted shadow of a historic gate

Ideas

Chasing the King of Kowloon

Louisa Lim

April 19, 2022

A expressive ink painting of Tsang Tsou-choi

The Good Word

Why We’re Calling Everything a ‘Hellscape’

Caleb Madison

April 18, 2022

Art

The Melville of American Painting

Susan Tallman

May 2022 Issue

Winslow Homer's painting of rudderless, mastless small boat in rough seas surrounded by sharks, a shirtless man lying on the deck staring to the right, with ship and waterspout in distant background

Culture

‘We Have to Look for Longer’

Sophie Gilbert

March 31, 2022

Five men carry a pregnant woman on a stretcher. They are surrounded by destroyed buildings and debris.

Books

Her World Began to Collapse, So She Started Keeping a Diary

Gal Beckerman

March 25, 2022

A woman in white stands before a shelled building

Viewfinder

Close to Home

Clint Smith

March 2022 Issue

a boy looks up at the sky at dusk while sitting on a bench in front of a large stone fire pit

Culture

The Art Movement That Embraced the Monstrous

Sophie Madeline Dess

January 10, 2022

Culture

Photos Are Too Flattering Now

Pamela Paul

October 25, 2021

Books

Writing Should Be a Visual Art

Amitava Kumar

October 6, 2021

An illustration of a book with colorful illustrations: a red blotch and black circle against a yellow background on one page, and a blue smear against red on the other

Ideas

The Emerging Artistry of Hunter Biden

Casey Michel

September 22, 2021

Illustration of framed $100 bills covered by fabric

Inheritance

The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery

Latria Graham

September 16, 2021

A mosaic photo illustration of a daguerreotype of a formerly enslaved woman

Viewfinder

The Surreality of Documenting 2020

Amy Weiss-Meyer

April 23, 2021

Viewfinder

‘Very American Photographs’

Syreeta McFadden

May 2021 Issue

left: photo of two men wearing sunglasses and hats; right: photo of woman wearing denim

Press Room

The Atlantic releases two NFTs for auction

April 2, 2021

Books

The Brilliance in Francis Bacon’s Early Failures

Sophie Madeline Dess

March 25, 2021

Bacon in a beige sweater sitting in his studio

How to Build a Life

A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down

Arthur C. Brooks

March 4, 2021

A woman paints a smiley face onto the sun

Ideas

Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong From the Start

Kim Beil

November 27, 2020

Books

September 7, 2020

Culture

The Minimalist Who Wasn’t

Leslie Jamison

October 2020 Issue

Sections

The Print Edition

Ken Burns Tells America’s History Through Six Photographs

Just How Safe Is Great Art?

Depicting Injustice

A Bygone Boston

The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art

A More Complete Archive of the American South

The Angels of Lviv

The Power of the Black Portrait

How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped

National Portrait Gallery and The Atlantic Announce “Perspectives: The Atlantic’s Writers at the National Portrait Gallery”

The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere

What the Viral Gun Photographer Has to Say About His Subjects

Don’t Look Away From Philip Guston’s Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen

The Seminal TV Series That Changed How We See

What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities

Chasing the King of Kowloon

Why We’re Calling Everything a ‘Hellscape’

The Melville of American Painting

‘We Have to Look for Longer’

Her World Began to Collapse, So She Started Keeping a Diary

Close to Home

The Art Movement That Embraced the Monstrous

Photos Are Too Flattering Now

Writing Should Be a Visual Art

The Emerging Artistry of Hunter Biden

The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery

The Surreality of Documenting 2020

‘Very American Photographs’

The Atlantic releases two NFTs for auction

The Brilliance in Francis Bacon’s Early Failures

A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down

Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong From the Start

Whitewashing the Great Depression

Am I What You’re Looking For?

The Uncanny Tale of Shimmel Zohar

The Minimalist Who Wasn’t