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The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs

April 2025 Issue

photo of the backs of two people looking at a wall of symmetrically arranged paintings including Seurat's "Models" and Cézanne's "The Card Players"

The Rise of the Anti-Fan

March 2, 2025

Illustration of Johanne Sacreblu and Karla Sofia Gascon

Let Them Eat Art?

Laura Barrón-López

February 28, 2025

Abstract image of painting frames and a U.S. embassy

America Now Has a Minister of Culture

February 25, 2025

A photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and a silhouette of Donald Trump superimposed on a photo of the Kennedy Center.

Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelerating

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker

February 8, 2025

A silhouette of Donald Trump descending stairs

Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker

February 7, 2025

Black-and-white photo of the Kennedy Center

What Christopher Hitchens Understood About the Parthenon

February 4, 2025

Collage of photographs of marble sculptures and pieces of the Parthenon building, connected with red lines

A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark

March 2025 Issue

illustration with sketched portraits of Ali Smith with multicolored marks and scribbles

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

January 15, 2025

A photo-illustration of a cut-out black-and-white photo of a young woman holding a camera, framed with rectangular 3-D lines in a collage style on a mustard-yellow background.

What Taylor Swift Understands About Love

Miranda Featherstone

January 3, 2025

An illustration showing a heart-shaped compass floating above a landscape.

The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year

The Atlantic Art Department

December 23, 2024

A typographic image of "Year in Visuals 2024" in red on a white background

The Art Monster Under the Bed

December 20, 2024

A blank pink canvas with knife slashes through it

A Biting Satire of the Art World’s Monstrousness

December 19, 2024

a woman painting on an easel using the tail of the monster standing next to her

Book Recommendations

Read These Six Books—Just Trust Us

December 11, 2024

A person blending in with a couch, holding a book in front of their face

The Atlantic Daily

Behind the Brain Rot

John Hendrickson

December 3, 2024

An Asian girl looks at her phone screen with a blurry light distortion around her head

The Atlantic Gift Guide

November 19, 2024

A group of gifts

Even Worse Than The Da Vinci Code

Matthew Schmitz

November 17, 2024

Ralph Fiennes in "Conclave"

The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism

December 2024 Issue

detail from painting of woman in 19th-century dress gazing down at baby in cradle with sheer drape around it

The Magic Mountain Saved My Life

December 2024 Issue

A grid of white lines over squares of two interlaced black-and-white photos, a portrait of Thomas Mann and a picture of a snowy mountain slope

The Israeli Artist Who Offends Everyone

Judith Shulevitz

November 2024 Issue

painting of horrified woman wearing red with white polka dots, clutching living child in her arms while crouching next to tangled pile of dead children in pool of red blood with black background

The Atlantic Daily

Two Books Worth Reading Back-to-Back

September 8, 2024

Two blue books next to each other

Atlantic Intelligence

Critics Are Missing the Point of AI Art

September 6, 2024

A buffer bar on a white paper resting on a painting easel

Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Art

September 5, 2024

A buffer bar on a white paper resting on a painting easel

The Atlantic Daily

Why Alice Munro’s Work Felt so Empty

August 18, 2024

Alice Munro walks in front of a river and looks off to the right

Why Does AI Art Look Like That?

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

August 16, 2024

Illustration depicting many samey, AI-looking images in a series of frames

Not Your Typical Prison Drama

July 17, 2024

Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin in 'Sing Sing'

An Antidote to the Cult of Self-Discipline

July 1, 2024

a cup in front of a painting of clouds against floral wallpaper

The Tchaikovsky Cure for Worry

Arthur C. Brooks

June 27, 2024

A whimsical illustration of a fish singing to a woman who is playing it like a violin.

Rachel Cusk’s Lonely Experiment

July/August 2024 Issue

upside-down color-pencil sketch in blues and purples of the author's face and hair

Book Recommendations

What to Read When You Have Only Half an Hour

June 8, 2024

A pair of glasses with tiny books surrounding them

When the Culture Wars Came for the Theater

June 4, 2024

a poster for a play, featuring a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty

The Atlantic Daily

A Throwback Show That Stays Relevant

May 26, 2024

Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte wear sunglasses and watch a baseball game

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’

May 23, 2024

The orange silhouettes of two women overlap

A Powerful Indictment of the Art World

May 21, 2024

A marbled paint stroke obscuring a barn in a green field

American Beauty

June 2024 Issue

photo of crowd of people holding up phones and tablets to take pictures of geyser spout

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Limits of Utopia

May 9, 2024

Six mockups of different building plans and designs