The Daring is an art and culture magazine celebrating collisions between art and life.⁠

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Artist and conservator Lisa DiClerico in her studio, Long Island City, New York | José A. Alvarado Jr. for The Daring
The Art of Painting a New York That No Longer Exists
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Rachel Wyman’s Meditative Return to Her Most Natural State

Yuge Zhou’s New Video Installation Is a Provocative Ride Through Chinese American History

Project Unity: Ten Miles of Track in One Day memorializes 20,000 Chinese emigrants employed by Central Pacific Railroad to build the transcontinental railroad.

Melissa Schriek on Human Connection, Choreographing Dancers
“Kolkata’s Ethnicity Is Within People in Small Areas”: Akshat Bagla on Local Storytelling
Jake Dylan on Collage Art, Provoking Creative Thinking
Meet Photographer Aileen Barney Whose Images Preserve the Fading Circus Industry
Fred Hatt’s Triumphant Portraits Bring a Fresh Perspective on the Human Body

ART

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“You Hear All the Time, Animals Have No Voice. It’s True.”: Linda Kuo on Portraying Wildlife
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Chris Facey, Untitled image from the double Dutch story (Copyright © Chris Facey)
Girls Who Fly: Photos Celebrating the Power of Double Dutch
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Fred Hatt’s Triumphant Portraits Bring a Fresh Perspective on the Human Body

“We can only experience the world in the form of a body that is inherently temporary”: The artist talks about the human form, drawing people, and why he takes such a multidisciplinary approach.

Artist and conservator Lisa DiClerico in her studio, Long Island City, New York | José A. Alvarado Jr. for The Daring
The Art of Painting a New York That No Longer Exists
Anna King
Inside Anna King’s Photos of Pleasure and Tedium
Visual Storyteller Nicholas Loffredo is broadening the definition of queerness
Nicholas Loffredo Is Broadening the Definition of Queerness
Madge Yang
A New Kind of Historical Record

MUSIC

Joan Baez
Joan Baez Strikes a New Chord With a Dylan Classic: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
Pace University x Brooklyn Raga Massive Music Series: Ben Tyree and Sameer Gupta

The Moon, Desire, and the Pursuit of Joy

With music—as with many crafts—once you experience that first tremendously powerful time when something really clicks, the intrinsic and dynamic reward system can become intoxicating.

David Sosa in Conversation With Ben Tyree
In Conversation with David Sosa
V Jeffrey Smith Black Rock Coalition
In Conversation with V. Jeffrey Smith
In Conversation with John Medeski
In Conversation with Sophia Ramos

OPINION

Trigger Warning: No Person Is Above the Law (Or, Why the Attorney General’s Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe Thinks Trump Is Guilty)
January 6 Hearings
Bully, Inc. (Or, How Trump Failed to Strong-Arm the Justice Department and Why He Should Be Jailed)
January 6 Hearings

Gaslighting the Vice President (Or, Why Trump Doesn’t Want to Be Mike Pence’s Friend, Anyway)

Televised hearings on the January 6 insurrection reveal that Trump’s attacks on former vice president Mike Pence cut deep.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez Strikes a New Chord With a Dylan Classic: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
Teaching the whole child and social-emotional learning
The Hard Reality of Teaching the Whole Child
Tomboy, The Daring
Tomboy: Toward a More Expansive Definition of Womanhood
City Girls
City Girls