“Zine” may be short for “magazine,” but the two words are a world apart. While the latter is being pulled further and further into the digital realm, the truncated form remains firmly, stubbornly, analog. Zines refer to magazines that are small (both in pa…

A descendant of Patrick Henry, the American revolutionary famed for his line, “give me liberty, or give me death!”, Patrick Henry Bruce was born to a Virginia family who lost a great deal of wealth when slavery was abolished and their plantation no longer…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement’s most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19th cen…

Thomson was a self-taught Canadian painter and graphic designer. Although Thomson died in a boating accident before the famous Group of Seven formed, he is often credited with galvanizing the movement into being. His work celebrated the rugged landscape of…

Throughout his life in the 19th century, Constantin Hansen demonstrated his affinity for Danish history and government through his genre, portrait, landscape, and history paintings. When he was 21, Hansen’s parents both succumbed to typhus, establishing th…