Kinsey Lane Sullivan

For some photographers, their work walks a fine line between documenting and creating. These artists balance fact with fiction, illuminating truth and reality through staging and storytelling. Artists like Cindy Sherman, with her multifaceted…

A new generation of feminist artists are favoring a more accessible, democratic method of art sharing, rather than pursuing traditional methods of art-world success like gallery representation and museum shows. What is this method? The internet. In…

The United States is often described as a melting pot, a mosaic of individual voices. When it comes to the complex relationship between Native and U.S. history and contemporary culture, however, that doesn't feel accurate. It seems like Native…

Women depicted in fine art are often nude, alluring and sexually inviting. A 2012 campaign by renowned art activists the Guerrilla Girls said that less than 6% of the artists in the Modern Art section of the Met are women, and across the museum, 85%…

The vacation test. Summer is the season of beach trips, cabin weekends and sun-filled getaways to exotic locations. Oh, and stressing over whether you should go on said vacations with the person you've only recently started dating.   Tinder and…

If selfies are the unofficial currency of social media in general and Instagram in particular, then portrait photography is a natural counterpoint to those front-lens fancies. People love to see and share their own faces, but they love to see and…

Before Dan Savage, before Sex and the City, before Kim Kardashian, before Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Dr. Ruth. At 86, Ruth Westheimer is among the most famous living sex therapists. She's been dishing out candid, good-humored sex advice for 35…

The brooding, enigmatic Kurt Cobain may not be the first musician you associate with the word "love." The Nirvana singer-songwriter's work was cast in a melancholy that doesn't seem compatible with the our idealized, Hallmark version of love. But…

Amy Poehler, the absurdly funny mastermind behind Parks and Recreation and all of our favorite awards show moments, has long been an icon of self-confidence and empowerment. She's direct, charming and outspoken, which not only makes her a great…

Hate it or love it, Valentine's Day is a huge holiday, prompting the exchange of around 151 million cards in the U.S. alone, not to mention all the roses and chocolates. But despite the assault of all things romantic waged each February, plenty of…

Last week, the Internet briefly whipped into a frenzy over our nation's collective dating deal breakers, summed up with the hashtag #FiveWordsToRuinADate. But sarcastic tweets aside, there still seems to be one conclusive dating deal breaker that…

The most common New Year's resolutions (you know, the ones that fewer than 8% of us actually keep) included vows to lose weight, get organized and spend less money. But science tells us that there's a simpler, more powerful resolution that we can…

Everyone's busy declaring superfood trends of 2015, deciding which magical ingredient will become our new national health obsession. But our fixation with nutritional "superfoods" not only overstates just how healthy these foods really are, but also…

The African art revolution will be Instagrammed. It's clear that in popular and academic art history discussions, and even in professional art industries, coverage of African art and artistic movements is inadequate. Go to any nonspecialized art…

It's common to think of art as inaccessible, or to make it precious by only showing it in museums and galleries. Many question this perceived elitism, and are taking over abandoned or underused buildings, turning common spaces, forgotten spaces,…

Photographer Matt Black has been focusing his lens unflinchingly on poverty in the Americas since the 1990s. With two recently launched photographic initiatives, Black is using Instagram to bring more eyes to his work and more eyes to the disparate,…

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in the right hands, it can also produce incredible…

Huge leaps. Strong lines. Trained physicality. Blistered feet. Instagram is filled with dancers and dance enthusiasts sharing their unique perspectives and photos of this beautiful, challenging art form.  The juxtaposition of athleticism and…

New York gets all the credit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Frick Collection, the New Museum — it can often seem like the world's best art is housed in New York City. It's easy to get…