All at sea – the anxious mariners of Marsden Hartley
A briny, brawny late work by Maine’s favourite modernist finds strength in stoic silence
How the Peanuts cartoons captured the soul of post-war America
On the centenary of Charles M. Schulz’s birth, the cartoonist’s greatest creation still sums up the hopes and fears of the nuclear age
The Scottish artist who liked to be beside the seaside
The seaside scenes of Willie Rodger aren’t necessarily a sunny affair, but they are always full of life
Lord of the wings – how Audubon’s career got off to a flying start
James John Audubon’s illustrations of birds endure to this day, even if many of the species he depicted didn’t make it
The adventures of Reinhard Behrens and his rusty toy submarine
The painter has created a fictitious world called Naboland which he explores with the help of a rusty submersible
Keys to success: how typewriters transformed the world of work
Typewriters may be museum pieces now, but they created office jobs for women and by doing so changed the 20th century
The magazines that made America
The pages of US periodicals trumpet a country making it up as it went along, covering everything from prohibition to pulp fiction
Fran Lebowitz loves New York more than you do
The city’s most devoted citizen explains urban life to Martin Scorsese
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?