Feature Archives - Critical Read

Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Tote Bag Design Contest

September 15, 2020• Art Is Essential, Feature

We have a winner, and it’s Dora Pang.

September 10, 2020• Editor's Note, Feature

We are seeking previously unpublished personal essays up to 2,000 words about the creative endeavor that you paused. ...

August 31, 2020• Feature, Visual Art

"What might be if he lived? What does it mean that his image is defined and further commoditized without his consent, by the same...

Writers on the art that matters to them.

September 9, 2019• Ebook, Feature, Visual Art

A collaborative image threatens the relationship between artist and muse....

August 30, 2018• Ebook, Feature, Theater

America’s pioneer political drama saw the nation falling short of its ideals. Almost one hundred years later, the play is more relevant...

A conceptual design for a war memorial prioritizes the individual over the community, upending a centuries-old architectural language.

An obscure art film raises the question of censorship at a major art institution. ...

May 17, 2016• Dance, Ebook, Feature

In 1987 an American choreographer working in Europe turned ballet on its head. Dance would never be the same. ...

With ‘Midnight’s Children’ author Salman Rushdie found his voice. It would become an international cause.