This Artwork Changed My Life

Art Living

Why Ree Morton’s ‘Don’t Worry, I’ll Only Read You The Good Parts’ Made Me Cry

Art Living

Did Monet’s Waterloo Bridge Shape My Career as an Art Critic?

Art Living

How Günter Brus’ Self Painting Showed Me Life’s Psychotic Duality

Art Living

How Narkevičius’ The Role of a Lifetime Showed Me a New World of Dissent

Art Living

Rauschenberg’s Mud Muse Taught Me to Find Cohesion Even Amidst Chaos

Art Living

The Lady of Shalott Taught Me That Female Power Exists Beyond Fairytales

Art Living

Simone Leigh Proved to Me That Black Women Can Claim Space in a Hostile World

Art Living

Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit Showed Me the Radical Power of Self-Publishing

Art Living

Richard Billingham Helped Me to Accept the True Ugliness of Alcoholism

Art Living

Bill Henson’s Photograph of a Floating Girl Captured My Own Teenage Longing

Art Living

Paul Nash Taught Me the Unknowable Multiplicity of My Desires

Art Living

Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin Helped Me to Reconnect After an Abortion

Art Living

Cecilia Vicuña’s Arte Precario Reawakened My Enduring Love of the Sea

Art Living

Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield Helped Me to Reconcile Art and Environmentalism

Art Living

Franco Vaccari’s Photomatic D’Italia Taught Me That Infatuation Is All About Image

Art Living

Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Taught Me to Take Cooking and Eating Seriously

Art Living

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore Evokes the Magic of My English Hometown

Art Living

Tomás Saraceno Forced Me to Confront My Anxieties About the Modern World

Art Living

K-Hole’s Trend Reports Taught Me to Stop Worrying About the Art World

Art Living

Susan Hiller’s Dream Mapping Awoke Me From the Solitary Terror of My Nightmares

Culture

Jo Spence’s “Brave” Self-Portraits Taught Me the Brutal Taboos of Womanhood

Art Living

Bárbaro Rivas Showed Me the Value of My Own Complicated Heritage

How-To

Ghost World Taught Me How to Embrace My Teenage Loneliness

Art Living

Van Gogh’s Two Crabs Raised My Spirits When Nothing Else Could