Art

  Emily Louise Smith: The energetic style and colors of your paintings convey whimsy and humor—I think of those exaggerated, long-limbed characters—and yet some also hint at misfortune. Your work seems both playful and ominous. Kirsten Sims: Playful and ominous,

EMILY LOUISE SMITH: Describe the origin of The Sinking World. ANDREAS FRANKE: In search of a new diving challenge a few years ago, I planned to photograph the Baron Gautsch, a former Austrian passenger ship that sank ninety-nine years ago …

 Emily Louise Smith: Why tintypes? Harry Taylor: Historic processes create one-of-a-kind artifacts. At a recent show, someone of obvious culture and age grabbed me by the arm and said, “This is amazing, where did you find them?” I replied,

Emily Louise Smith: What does the term folk, or outsider, artist mean to you, and do you define yourself that way? Harry Underwood: I don’t think of that label as having anything to do with my vision or how I …

These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the north Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted …

My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the “wild,” how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and to alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We …