“Night Begins the Day”
The Romantic Sublime informs the work of this wide ranging group of artists, along with the Jewish tradition that the day begins not at sunrise but at sunset. More...
Still Nothing Like Venice
It's got to be the most stressful to negotiate, chaotically presented art festival in the world, but between Venice itself and its impossibly sprawling Biennale there remains nothing of comparable excitement in the art world today. More...
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu share in their distinctly different paintings a common penchant for the extraordinary. More...
“Dwell”
"Dwell" consists of a thoughtful range of art addressing architectural subjects in which community interchange and personal freedom appear as recurrent themes. More...
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright makes paintings out of videos. Especially intriguing is that the playthings populating her girl-in-the-bedroom avatar becomes the viewers' own playthings. Consider it a classy tease. More...
House on Mango St.
In "The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" Sandra Cisneros' novel is updated through the eyes of artists from around the country. More...
An Aesthetic of Political Audacity
Are gender-based and political issues still viable in art criticism today? is the 13th question discussed by DeWitt Cheng in his series of responses to the venerable Irving Sandler. More...
Scott Greene
Everything is in a state of falling apart in Scott Greene's desperate landscapes--but are still, just barely, hanging on. More...
Sarah HaBa
Sarah HaBa’s delicate and contemplative watercolors on paper depict that very material: bound paper, books, notebooks, and popup books. Delicate and ephemeral they may be, but they are also real and essential. More...
El Anatsui
Hardly the first to employ cheap, non-art materials such as bottle caps, El Anatsui shimmering wall hangings are complex and just gorgeous. More...
Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow blows up junk assemblage practice to a scale massive enough to walk into. And when you do, what at first appears weighty and solid turns out to be free of density but revealing of each works' latticework. More...
Kelli Vance
Kelli Vance may be the star of her own suggestive narratives, but she keeps herself out of the story. Vance is just the model. More...
“Getting” Abstraction. Or Not
Richard Speer continues to be dumbfounded by the remaining degree of public resistance to art that does not represent the familiar. Oddly, a dance performance recently provided him with the reason why. More...
Eli Reed
Eli Reed's career dates from the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s, and his photography has long combined stylishness with social activism. More...
Eileen David
The streetscapes of San Francisco favor the timeless over ceaseless change in Eileen David's painterly vision. Beautifully composed images of familiar locations provide instant gratification for locals who love their home town. More...
Lisa Olson and Terry Pisel
Photographers Lia Olson and Terry Pisel view Phoenix through a quirky yet affectionate camera lens enriched with encaustic. More...
Clarissa Tossin
Gallery baseboards are painted green to match the trim of houses in Clarissa Tossin's photographs. These pair modest cabins juxtaposed with photographs of those cabins. More...
Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal and Tim Rowan
Tim Rowan's ceramic sculptures look more rock than clay, while Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal's landscapes are rendered in soft shades of green and charcoal. More...
Frye Salon
Historically under appreciated, the founding collection of the Frye Museum today can no longer be dismissed thanks to fresh knowledge. More...
Mel Katz
Sculptor Mel Katz is still gong strong at 83, and two major surveys show what a vital force he has been since the 1960s. More...
