Grinagrim is a Korean-language newsletter that teaches art history to build readers' perspective and visual sensibility, with essays on how to look at artworks and how art history informs design. It also covers the author's book on East Asian painting history and reflections from her book talks.
Website: https://www.grinagrim.com/
Long-form essays that read video games through folklore, medieval art, mythology, cosmology and the occult. Readers get contextual criticism that ties specific games to their historical and cultural sources.
SAUCE Journal publishes long-form essays on skateboarding by academics, filmmakers and skaters, covering its culture, spaces, media and law. Readers get personal, scholarly writing that treats skateboarding as a subject of serious cultural analysis.
Alice Gribbin writes long-form essays on art, examining Renaissance and Baroque painters such as Raphael, Tiepolo and Delacroix and questioning what makes an artwork endure. The essays combine close visual description with broader arguments about aesthetics, metaphysics and the will required to look seriously at painting.
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