Trip Advisor Loves AIC
The Art Institute of Chicago is a wonderful art museum, one of the best. But if Chicago-based James Yood enjoyed TripAdvisor's recent poll rating the AIC #1 in the world, he shows that the claim is kinda wrong in the real world. More...
On Artist-Run Spaces
What San Antonio lacks in mainstream commercial art galleries it more than makes up for in adventurous artist-run spaces. More...
The Long View Middle Way
Should critics ignore the proliferation of new media in art? Of course not, but DeWitt Cheng distinguishes between faddish razzle-dazzle and culturally literal innovation. More...
Maria Frank Abrams: An Appreciation
It's been a year since Holocaust survivor and painter Maria Frank Abrams passed. That she found the practice of modernist abstraction a catalyst for recovery does not tell the full story of her aesthetic achievement. More...
Bathos in Sex and Art
Richard Speer finds dispiriting similarities in the ways in which sexuality and visual art are thought of in contemporary culture. This is reflected in terminology and images that have proliferated and been absorbed into ordinary cultural literacy. More...
How to Activate a Storefront Window
Storefront window art installations at Artpace in San Antonio have often ambitiously pushed beyond merely using the space as a storefront display case. David S. Rubin cites several examples that stand out. More...
Buster Simpson: Surveyor
Buster Simpson's unwieldy and environmentally informed sculpture and performance is at its best outside the museum galleries, but consistently exhilarating. More...
Guide for the Art-Perplexed
In his short, readable essays, John Seed shows that thoughtful opinions and common sense still have a vital role in art discourse. More...
It May Be Easy … But Choose Wisely
Has the internet been good or bad for art criticism? In his latest reflection on Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng sees that behind the silver lining does lie a cloud. More...
Remembering China (Part 2)
The second part of Matthew Kangas account of his 1992 participation in a Beijing exhibition that helped establish friendly cultural relations between China and Japan. More...
Bludgeoned by Beauty
On a recent trip through the far northwest of Canada and Alaska Richard Speer found himself comparing his direct encounter with nature with its visual interpretation by our best artists and photographers. More...
Remembering China (Part 1)
Mathew Kangas' visit to China 22 years ago let a lasting impression both for the centerpiece Kazuaki Kita exhibition and the surrounding diplomacy. More...
A Match Made in Council Chambers
The Santa Monica City Council's stunning decision to award exclusive negotiating rights to the developer not recommended by City bureaucrats will save Bergamot Station as a key location for art galleries. More...
For Whom I Write
In his continuing commentary of Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng suggests who writers write for is less important than what should fairly be expected of the reader. More...
Honor the Wanderjahre
James Yood's real New Year is the start of the school year, and he serves a reminder of the special calling and challenge of choosing art. More...
The New Interactivity
Influenced by rapidly evolving digital technologies, many artists have become attracted to new interactive possibilities. More...
The Magic Circle of Profound Enchantment
Art collecting, writes Matthew Kangas, has inspired a wide variety of explanations about its nature. Here are some of the most interesting. More...
Political Art Month in San Antonio
David S. Rubin singles out a trio of young artists who personify the ideals and quality of San Antonio's Political Art Month. More...
Sullied by Celebrity
Celebrities who engage in visual art do themselves a disservice when they dabble and galleries that should know better indulge their lust for that celebrity. Indeed, celebrity is today smothering art, flattening high and low into a mindless sameness. More...
Dimitri Kozyrev
Landscape painting often evokes quietness, stillness; bringing solitary contemplation onto a distant horizon. In the hands of More...
