Grace Edquist is a New York–based arts and culture writer and the copy director of Vogue magazine. She’s written about pop-folk It girl Marisol, Bauhaus master weaver Anni Albers, and the cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb. She is also the co-creator of acrostic puzzles. (You should try them; they’re fun.)

You can find a selection of her published work here

“Still Life with Small Dog” by Giovanna Garzoni (1648)

Giovanna Garzoni, Lapdog with Biscotti and Chinese Cup, c.1648