Lee Rosenbaum has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and a number of major art magazines. In addition, her blog, CultureGrrl, won a "best blog" award way back in 2009 and has been a major voice in the art world ever since. Here readers will find more-or-less weekly posts on museum exhibits, art auctions, and nights at the opera, as well as learned reviews of art, both...

Brain Pickings is the creative artifact of Maria Popova, a reader, writer, and critic with a polymath's passion for literature, arts, advertising, communications, and a virtual truckload of other subjects. Recent articles have outlined the meaning of life according to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, showcased the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's compilation of 11 different writer's advice to...

Izabella Laba is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, where she researches harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics. Thankfully, she also writes an excellent, readable blog, where the rest of us can peruse her thoughts on mathematics, gender, the academy, and whatever else happens to be on her unusually brilliant mind on any given day....