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“Even as a young girl, it was very obvious to me that my body – and the way people viewed my body – was going to be part of my experience as a human on this planet. “—Jamie Schofield Riva, in our interview on the power and scrutiny of beauty.

“A lot of the expression in my work comes from the isolation of motherhood. […] I’m bearing witness and I have a real desire to give those moments the same type of importance as a presidential portrait or a great war battle.”—Lupita Carrasco, in our interview on caregiving and creation.

“Having all the equipment means there’s nothing that’s farmed out—I do everything. That makes it quite financially feasible.”—Evan Baden, on his DIY book press.

“There is no artist mother paradigm. So, when I, as a middle-aged woman, make art, people assume it’s my nice hobby. They don’t take me seriously because it’s not a paradigm that we celebrate or that’s particularly visible, culturally. But being an artist mother is an identity that, once it’s articulated, people feel very strongly.”—Hettie Judah, on the artist mother identity.

“You need to watch your flame and tend to what it needs, because the light’s going to go out otherwise. If you don’t give it the right environment—give it burning oil, protect it from wind and so forth—then it’s going to go out. Once it’s out, you have to just sit around and wait till it gets lit again. You don’t get lit on demand.”—Manjari Sharma, on guarding your flame.

In the new photobook Immortal: Lost Memoirs of Cornelia Dulac Concerning the Freshwater Polyp Hydra, authors Maija Tammi and Ville Tietäväinen give us a fictionalized account of true scientific studies of Hydra—a biological immortal.

In the new book How Art Works, Ellen Winner walks us through the foundations of how we think about art, touching on questions, research, and theory.

“When training is not just about the physical act but also about your goals and your point of focus and what you’re doing with your mind, I think a happy by-product of that is less anxiety and fewer dark issues of the soul, because it’s a proactive way of training.”—Vanessa Cornett, in our interview about new book The Mindful Musician.

From now until 5 January 2020 at the Tate Modern: a mid-career survey of the works of Olafur Eliasson: life-size encounters that engage and confound the senses to trigger what can only be called “experiences.”

The female nude: a genre of photography that is heavily tried and ambiguously true. Women photographers have tried to reclaim authorship of the female experience through their work, but is it possible to be naked without being nude?