The moment before going public, where artistic courage begins with private calculation. The Arts, Courage, and Consequence[…]

Dread Scott, What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?, 1989. Detail from installation. Viewers[…]

Xu Wei’s ink wash painting from the Ming Dynasty, featuring a poem in Chinese at the top[…]

Oscar Wilde, a brilliant creative voice constrained by Victorian moral strictures. Silencing art blinds society to change.[…]

Album cover for Quan L’aigua Es Queix by Catalan singer-songwriter Raimon, featuring artwork by Joan Miró, 1979.[…]

Uniform Plattenbau blocks reveal how state-directed design limited individual and creative expression. Societies that control creativity risk[…]

The only known photo of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (second from left) with his band, circa 1905. Courtesy[…]

Kazimir Malevich, most likely at the Museum of Artistic Culture, Petrograd, 1924. Public domain, via monoskop.org. The[…]

Langston Hughes, photographed in Kodachrome by Carl Van Vechten, 1936. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library.[…]

Georgia O’Keeffe, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, ca. 1920–1922. Courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Open Content Program.[…]