Albert Watson for The Macallan

Our interview with The Macallan's latest Master of Photography

Back in September when we visited The Macallan at their home in the Scottish Highlands we were given a sneak preview of both the liquid and the imagery from the latest in their Masters of Photography series. While the 20-year-old whisky instantly became our new favorite for the way its buttery smooth texture offsets its rich and complex flavor, the imagery Albert Watson created to …

A Ghost Is Occupying My Heart

Photographer John Arsenault overcomes heartbreak with an emotional exhibition of nudes and landscapes

Sometimes love just isn’t enough, at least that’s how photographer John Arsenault tells it in his gallery exhibition “A Ghost Is Occupying My Heart.” After a nine-year-long relationship—the subject of most of his previous work—dissolved into blocked Facebook accounts and a self-healing playlist, the artist escaped from NYC and traveled to the insulated Massachusetts harbor community of Provincetown. There, Arsenault re-discovered himself by “stripping myself …

Best of CH 2010: Top Five Books

From public radio to public art, our favorite books for 2010 exemplify the beauty in freedom of speech and beyond

Though this year consumers had their pick of platforms with the e-reader, iPad and at its tail end, the ambitious Google eBooks project all at the pinnacle of published matter, print stood strong and proved that just like with the movies, the book is usually better. 3DD Photographer Henry Hargreaves’ “3DD” took an in-your-face approach with 86 pages of topless women, whose all-natural breasts were …