There is a question we can spend years avoiding, even while we are busy building a life: Who am I beneath everything I have learned to be? Beneath the work, the responsibilities, the expectations. Beneath the person who knows how to keep going, take care of everyone,...
Our next Book Club selection invites us into a world where imagination takes extraordinary forms. In PLUNGE!, Corinne Whitaker brings together richly detailed illustrations and playful, questioning verse to create a visual journey that rewards curiosity. Faces stretch...
Fashion changes. Newspapers fade. An artist’s story can preserve what both leave behind. Imagine opening a newspaper and finding a fashion illustration that makes you pause. A sweeping silhouette. An expressive face. Fabric suggested through a few extraordinary marks....
“Arabella in Repose” Oil on Canvas, 40”x40” by Barbara Tyler Ahlfield.From expressive fashion illustrations to evocative oil paintings, Barbara Tyler Ahlfield brings a distinctive understanding of beauty, character, and drama to the canvas. Her book and upcoming...
The Alchemist of Perception by Viviana Puello. There are artists who capture the world—and then there are artists who transform it. Howard Harris belongs firmly to that rare circle of visionaries who not only reflect their era but redefine it. A pioneer of digital...
Gene Sellers: Through the Lens of an Unfinished Story by Viviana Puello.There are photographers who capture the visible world, and then there are those who reveal its pulse. Gene Sellers belongs to the latter—a visual poet whose images are not composed merely of light...
Tracey Chaykin: The Alchemist of Hyperrealism and Conservation by Viviana Puello. Where beauty meets urgency—art as a call to action. It begins with a breath—so soft you almost miss it. A ripple on the water, the glint of an eye reflecting the world beyond the paper,...
Maya Lin speaking at a Berkeley Center for New Media lecture in 2014. Berkeley Center for New Media / CC BY-SA 2.0.A conventional memorial gathers loss into one place. Maya Lin’s What Is Missing? refuses that boundary. It exists through sculptures, temporary media...
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, The Reverse of a Framed Painting, 1668-1672. SMK; Statens Museum for Kunst / CC0 1.0.Before an artwork leaves the studio, write down what it looks like. Before it enters a gallery, do it again. Repeat the process after unpacking and...
A museum photography setup with lighting and an overhead camera. Myotus / CC BY 4.0.A work of art can leave your studio while its photograph stays with you for decades. That image may become the record used by a curator, collector, publisher, insurer or conservator....