Italo Scanga
Twenty years after his death, Italo Scanga's influence remains, but his achievement is not fully appreciated. More...
Lawn Art
The monotony of pandemic mornings is both comforting and boring. But boredom is the soil in which creative thoughts grow. More...
Heroes: Superman and Jackie O.
David Alcantar ran, marathon style, through the state of Georgia dressed as Superman and carrying a flag urging locals to "VOTE!" It was not the first time an artist donned a hero persona, through perhaps the first to help win a Senate majority. More...
Ann Morton
Ann Morton pleases the eye and teases our mind in mainly textile and found object works that are, finally, effectively searing. More...
Dakota Noot
While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused many to feel depressed or exasperated from isolation and boredom, Dakota Noot has found lockdown to be liberating. More...
Cultural Tensions in the High Desert
Never an easy place to get comfortable in, the Joshua Tree area has nonetheless drawn artists and other creatives for years. Through the Trump era their uneasy truce with extremists has not become explosive. More...
The Oakland Art Scene: In Place
In an overview of the late-pandemic condition of the East Bay gallery scene, DeWitt Cheng finds that many are faring better than expected. Closer to their neighborhood and more DIY than there San Francisco cousins turns out to have its advantages. More...
An American Resurrection
The contrast between normal and deranged has never been less private. By the end of the long, televised Inauguration Day,, most of us were splayed out on our family room couches with a shit-faced smile of relief. More...
Final Thoughts on Donald Trump
Now that President Elect Biden has been certified, nothing would satisfy many of us more than to see the current president fade permanently away, It won't be that simple. More...
What Are You Going Through?
Quoting the French philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil, "What are you going through?" is the product of compassion. More...
Yari Ostovany
Yari Ostovany's painting blend Abstract Expressionist, Persian and Taoist roots to produce a feeling of spiritual illumination. More...
Final Thoughts on Donald Trump
Richard Speer hopes this will be his final time to consider the bottomless vat of infantile narcissism who has disgraced this nation on the global stage for the past four years. More...
Chris Revelle
Race and its dark history in America permeate Chris Ravelle's varied body of work, which effectively drives a pickaxe through it's myths. More...
Rachmaninoff’s Last Stand
Fears of obsolescence haunt everyone — even, or especially, those in the cultural pantheon. Eeven if you’re Sergei Rachmaninoff. More...
