''Morris Graves: Selected Letters''
In this review of "Morris Graves: Selected Letters," Matthew Kangas reflects on the charismatic artist's genius as well as his propensity for abuse. More...
Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?
In his newest reaction to Irving Sandler's 14 questions for art critics, DeWitt Cheng describes the crisis state of art criticism. More...
Creativity & the Flow, Pt 2
Betty Brown continues her conversations with artists about the state of absorption in creative activity - the flow. More...
Biennale Fever
Off goes the author on another trip to the Venice Biennale, which remains absolutely the best way to be thrown into the deep end of contemporary art. More...
Virtual Reality Art
Notation and technology have enabled ordinary folk to experience a simulation of creative greatness, but not yet so in art. More...
Two Weeks in L.A.
Seattle-based Matthew Kangas blew through numerous L.A. museums and galleries recently, leaving with mostly favorable impressions mixed with some disappointments. More...
Creative Expropriation
Two of creative expropriation's leading proponents have recently seen their art subjected to the soft shoe shuffling of "uncool jokers." More...
Creativity & the Flow
There is a state of total absorption, the "flow," closely associated with intense creative activity. Brown explores the individual experience of this with a crosssection of artists. More...
Brutal Treatment of a Brutalist Building
Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital of 1975 is a masterpiece of brutalist architecture that right now looks out of its time. But it would be a mistake to demolish it. More...
Doing the Right Thing: A Morality Play
A month ago MOCA was on the verge of collapse or being acquired by a larger institution. That trustee suddenly found $75 million to add to bolster the museum makes us wonder. More...
Francine Seders: Silhouette
The longest standing private gallery in Seattle, Francine Seders, arrived from France knowing only that she did not want to be ordinary. More...
Capitalism and its Discontents
Cheng reflects on the second question raised by Irving Sandler: What are the issue or polemics for art criticism? More...
Is Anybody There?
Who is the world’s most famous living visual artist? Pause. While you’re mulling that over, let’s look at the question more closely. More...
Second Take(Over)
The latest takeover bid of MOCA by LACMA is encountering softened resistance compared to 2008, but is it really the right thing to have happen? More...
Where Art and Money are Well Met
Bill Lasarow shares the skepticism of many as to art market distortions. But the dealers' role remains that of a key intermediary. More...
The Bottom Line About the Bottom Line
Some argue that art has declined into a cash-driven, idea-poor spectacle, but perhaps there is more to the vast continent of art than its highest end market. More...
What's it All About?
That the art world has come to be shaped by market forces in recent decades makes the critical integrity of the art critic more crucial than ever. More...
Art Bizarro Worlds
James Yood often writes about art that is championed by diverse micro-communities of professionals and aficionados. Here's why. More...
