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Craft

Object lessons

A creative refuge for its students as much as its faculty and staff, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has its own nourishing natural rhythm.

  • Issue #164
  • 4 min read
Team members of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts standing together on wooden deck surrounded by cedar buildings
Culture

Moulding minds

A workshop in Florence reveals the mysteries of classical sculpture. Our correspondent gets hands-on to see it all take shape.

  • Issue #161
  • 5 min read
Room filled with classical sculpture reproductions including busts, reliefs and statues displayed on shelves and tables
Culture

League of its own

An art school just a few blocks from Moma is sculpting the next generation of Rothkos and Pollocks.

  • Issue #152
  • 12 min read
Student in James Little's non-objective painting class wearing blue gloves, gesturing toward a canvas in a studio.
Design

Creative process

The president of the Rhode Island School of Design sketches out the make-up of her tight team.

  • Issue #123
  • 4 min read
Creative process
Culture

Off the wall

Would you trust a student with a masterpiece? Oberlin College in the US has been renting out its collection since 1940.

  • Issue #119
  • 3 min read
A group of students cheerfully display framed artworks on the lawn outside a classical stone building.
Culture

Clean canvas

A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.

  • Issue #118
  • 8 min read
Clean canvas
Art

Talon show

London-based Wild Life Drawing classes swap human models for exotic animals, from wolves to seven-week-old owlets, helping urbanites reconnect with nature through art.

  • Issue #117
  • 3 min read
Young owlet bobbing its head during Wild Life Drawing session

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