The artist and musician Richard Lippold is perhaps best known in New York City for his spectacular _Orpheus and Apollo_ (1962), a five-ton chandelier made of shimmering metal ribbons that once hung in the lobby of the New York Philharmonic.

Editorial Assistant Nadja Hansen spoke with Sabine Rewald, curator of Balthus: Cats and Girls—Paintings and Provocations, to discuss her personal fascination with the artist and her latest research regarding Balthus's subjects.

Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art. Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas, and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High sits down with Curator Sabine Rewald to discuss the inspiration for the catalogue Max Beckmann in New York, the devotion of Beckmann's wife Quappi, and the artist's refusal to interpret his work to others.