In the barroom outside the shotgun performance hall at Pete's Candy Store, a woman's singing threatened to drown out a free lecture on artisanal pencil sharpening. "They're making an acetate record ...

David Rees, or Artisanal Pencil Sharpening in Beacon, New York, will send you a brand new, hand-sharpened pencil for $12. Inside the box you'll also find the shavings, bagged and tagged for posterity, ...

Someone just paid David Rees, of Beacon, N.Y., $35 to sharpen a pencil. "I think people think: 'Wow, I can't believe he actually did it,'" Rees said. "I wasn't sure what would happen when I sent this ...

ANDOVER, Minn. — In the digital age, bright yellow paint can seem like the only thing keeping pencils from feeling a little dull. But in a split-level house in Andover, pencils never stop feeling ...

Frida Kahlo, "View of New York (Dedicated to Dolores del Rio)," 1932, pencil on paper, private collection, courtesy Galeria Arvil. 2021 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, ...

David Rees is no stranger to paper. As a cartoonist for Rolling Stone and other publications, he won widespread acclaim (and criticism) for his politically charged “Get Your War On” strip, which ...