“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies. More...
Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism. More...
Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism. More...
“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of architectural and landscape constructs, they often display sensitivity to what is to be found, the flotsam of what has been built. More...
Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age. More...
Deconstruction: The War for a Word
The philosophical importance of Jacques Derrida's deconstructivist theory has helped shape serious art for decades. That makes Steve Bannon's mis-use of it in a political context not only offensive but dangerous. More...
Martha Alf Pointed Me to the Light
Martha Alf introduced a noteworthy approach to contemplative spirituality in art in here series of pears during the 1980s. Starting as carefully staged psychodramas, the edible object assumed the role of an actor, but over time they assumed a whole new dimension. More...
Michael Kenna and Mark Thompson
Michael Kenna's photography is exceptionally painterly, while Mark Thompson's landscape paintings of chilly Scandinavia have the appearance of vintage photographs. Kenna's images of Ford's River Rouge auto plant strikes a far different tone of grand, if ominous formalism. More...
