American Art Collector
PATRICK KRAMER Masterworks in Ruins
In his second solo show at Arcadia Contemporary, Patrick Kramer offers an array of \"destroyed masterpieces.\" Kramer recreates famous paintings as if they had been damaged in some way.
2 min |
July 2023
American Art Collector
DEPTH of DIMENSION
Among the ancient figurines of prehistory is the Venus of Willendorf, a four-and-a-half-inch limestone carving with enlarged breasts, stomach and thighs.
4 min |
July 2023
Writer’s Digest
Building Better Worlds
Tips for making your story concrete.
5 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
THE MEUSEUM OF HUMAN HISTORY
READING The Museum of Human History felt like listening to a great harmonic hum. After I finished it I found the hum lingering in my ears. Its echo continued for days.
4 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Sea Elephants
SHASTRI Akella's poised, elegant debut, The Sea Elephants, is a bildungsroman of a young man who joins a street theater group in India after fleeing his father's violent disapproval, the death of his twin sisters, and his mother's unfathomable grief.
4 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
Literary MagNet
When Greg Marshall began writing the essays that would become his memoir, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It (Abrams Press, June 2023), he wanted to explore growing up in Utah and what he calls \"the oddball occurrences in my oddball family.\" He says, \"I wanted to call the book Long-Term Side Effects of Accutane and pitch it as Six Feet Under meets The Wonder Years.\" But in 2014 he discovered his diagnosis of cerebral palsy, information his family had withheld from him for nearly thirty years, telling him he had \"tight tendons\" in his leg. This revelation shifted the focus of the project, which became an \"investigation into selfhood, uncovering the untold story of my body,\" says Marshall. Irreverent and playful, Leg reckons with disability, illness, queerness, and the process of understanding our families and ourselves.
3 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
We Are a Haunting
TYRIEK White’s debut novel, We Are a Haunting, strikes me as both a love letter to New York City and a kind of elegy.
4 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
RADICAL ATTENTION
IN HER LATEST BOOK, THE LIGHT ROOM: ON ART AND CARE, PUBLISHED BY RIVERHEAD BOOKS IN JULY, KATE ZAMBRENO CELEBRATES THE ETHICAL WORK OF CAREGIVING, THE SMALL JOYS OF ORDINARY LIFE, AND AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD WITHIN HUMAN SPACES.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
The History of a Difficult Child
MIHRET Sibhat's debut novel begins with God dumping rain on a small Ethiopian town as though. He were mad at somebody.
5 min |
July - August 2023
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Sorrows of Others
AS I read each story in Ada Zhang’s brilliant collection, The Sorrows of Others, within the first few paragraphs— sometimes the first few sentences— I felt I understood the characters intimately and profoundly, such that every choice they made, no matter how radical, ill-advised, or baffling to those around them, seemed inevitable and true to me.
6 min |
July - August 2023
American Art Collector
An Artful Illusion
The unparalleled spectacle that is Pageant of the Masters celebrates 90 years of bringing art to life in Laguna Beach
6 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
COLIN FRASER: Finding Freedom in Constraint
Scottish painter Colin Fraser is a master of egg tempera, an ancient and demanding medium that he finds freeing
1 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
VIVID COLOR
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo drew with natural chalks in the late 15th century, usually in red, white and black. In the early 16th century powdered color pigments were mixed with a binder such as gum Arabic, fish or animal glue and formed into sticks to provide a wide variety of colors
5 min |
June 2023
International Artist
Elegant Design
A well-executed drawing and composition make up the core tenets of Jose Lopez Vergara’'s oil paintings
5 min |
June/July 2023
American Art Collector
New Blood
Since opening Robert Lange Studios in 2005, husband and wife owners Robert and Megan Lange have represented hundreds of artists. The through-line across all those years has been their own work. Both Robert and Megan—painting as Megan Aline—are successful artists themselves
3 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
THE END of the ROAD
In their first group show, a foursome of artists present new works influenced by life on their very own scrap of the Wild West
6 min |
June 2023
International Artist
Naomi Brown: Desert Glow
Painting in the alla prima method, Naomi Brown captures the saturated colors of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts
4 min |
June/July 2023
American Art Collector
The Truth Within
Whether or not you believe in the soul or the psyche, everyone has an inner truth that guides their perception of the world around them
3 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
STEPHEN WRIGHT: A Wave's-eye View
Countless artists have pictured the sea, none, however, like Stephen Wright. His hyper-realistic wave’s-eye-view paintings might make onlookers feel like they have water up their nose
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
FRANK GONZALES: Sacred Spaces
The comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, “At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.”
1 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
BRIAN MCCLEAR: Double Takes
For artist Brian McClear, painting still life and portraiture—often working on both concurrently—is a fascinating pleasure
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
JUNYI LIU: Paint It Red
A new body of work by Junyi Liu is being highlighted during an online solo exhibition on Artsy this summer, hosted by 33 Contemporary and PoetsArtists
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
Candy & Calamity
The pandemic unlocked new feelings for many people. For Texas-based painter Kukula, she remembers experiencing grief, anguish and pain in a very acute way
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
DONALD JURNEY: The Poetry of Place
In the first chapter of Donald Jurney’s career, his focus was rooted in the tradition of landscape painting and painting in plein air. In the artist’s upcoming show at George Billis Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut, Jurney will showcase 11 paintings in an entirely new genre involving interiors and figures
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
Seeing the MIRACULOUS
Artist Jimmy Wright has spent a lifetime of learning, living and looking that he masterfully communicates through still lifes in paint and pastels
4 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
RENATO MUCCILLO: The Promised Land
It is forever the magic hour of dusk in Renato Muccillo’s dreamy display of jewel-like panels at Arcadia Contemporary
3 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
CASSIE BUTCHER AND SHANNON WOODFORD: The Language of Flowers
North Carolina artists Cassie Butcher and Shannon Woodford are coming together for a joint show at Art and Light Gallery that celebrates the language of flowers through a pairing of their unique ceramics and paintings
2 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
Into the BORDERLANDS
Painter Adrian Cox takes you on a visual journey into a fully-developed mythical realm between the real and imagined
5 min |
June 2023
American Art Collector
An EYE for the OCEAN
When Winslow Homer (1836-1910) first exhibited his painting, Northeaster, 1895, there were two men in foul-weather gear crouched on the rocks to the left
6 min |
June 2023
Illustration
THE ART OF WARD BRACKETT
Ward Brackett (April 2, 1914–December 14, 2006) was a gifted American illustrator, known for his work in paperback books and periodicals such as Reader’s Digest and Cosmopolitan.
2 min |