Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history. More...
Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject. More...
Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways. More...
Patricia Sannit
Stacked cylinders by Patricia Sannit are rough-hewn sentinels, metaphorical witnesses to history's repeating cycles of rise and fall. More...
Roy Thurston and Monique Prieto
The pairing of light and space veteran Roy Thurston's shimmering hybrids and Monique Prieto's abstract diptychs suggestive of human ears represents an interweaving of the senses of vision and hearing. More...
The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple. More...
Kasumi Chow and Desiree Espada
Twelve arresting color photographs by Kasumi Chow and Desiree Esada are stark images of intense psychodramas. More...
“Few Were Happy with Their Condition”
A group of Romanian artists born before that country's 1989 Revolution look at upheaval and transition through the lens of documenting everyday life. Overall the 17 artists favor poetic expression over didactic explanation. More...
Louis Kahn
Given the massive architectural output of mid-20th century giant Louis I. Kahn, he often devoted years, even decades to his key projects. More...
Beth Ames Swartz’ Spiritual Balancing Act
The subject of the recently released film "Reminders of Invisible Light," Beth Ames Swartz aesthetic of spirituality draws on a heady mix of California Light and Space, Jewish and Native America ritual, Hindu cosmology and her own rich imagination. More...
Josh Reames and Jose Lérma
Josh Reames' crafty airbrushed and tromp l'oeil-heavy paintings are given a healthy re-fresh through a collaboration with Jose Lérma. Together they create two mural-sized paintings, "He Hath Founded It Upon The Seas (I and II)." More...
Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly considered cultural heroes, others not so much. Creatives today, writes DeWitt Cheng, should in any case aspire to more than just good citizenship. More...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. More...
Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject. More...
