Beijing Artist Kong Kong Wei

Fantastical shoes and simple cotton accessories express the Chinese artist's creative dichotomy

Kong Kong Wei loves drawing. Since childhood, her father encouraged her to pursue the passion—taking her to art exhibitions and covering the walls of their home with scenes from her fairytale world. Her dedication to drawing brought her to study 3D computer graphics and illustration at college, but she soon began to miss working with her hands. “During my days at the university dorm I …

Lost Stories from Dr. Seuss

The author's old magazine pieces republished, featuring new and familiar faces

Though Theodor Seuss Geisel—best known as Dr. Seuss—passed away in 1991, his spirit lives eternally through his imaginative characters and tongue-twisting rhymes that have delighted children and parents alike for decades. Today, “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories” is released from Random House, featuring four stories that originally appeared—and were subsequently forgotten about—in Redbook magazine in the early ’50s. Now republished in book …

Tattoo Book

A wide look at aesthetics in contemporary tattooing and the art form's global history

It’s estimated that one in four Americans has at least one tattoo. Once associated with criminality (at least in certain cultures), tattoos have become overwhelmingly common. This is not new news. Taking a deeper look into the phenomenon, contemporary tattooing and the art form’s more global beginnings is “Tattoo,” a new book published to accompany an exhibition at Paris’ Musée du Quai Branly. While there …