Art
A Young Master of Painted Flesh
As invested as Louis Fratino is in his gay subject matter, what heightens the work is his formal mastery of the figure in space.
John Yau
Art
A Shape-Shifting Artist, 87 Years Young
Over the course of a 70-year-career, David Driskell has been making art about memory, jazz, cities, spirituality, and nature.
Books
Wallace Berman's Magical World
If you have any interest in the wild array of people who defined the West Coast bohemian world, you must read Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World.
Art
The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?
Art
A Photographer of Forgotten Men
Lee Nye’s subjects were the predominantly blue-collar patrons of Eddie’s Club, where he worked as a bartender between the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Art
Joanna Pousette-Dart’s Landscape
Pousette-Dart’s career is proof that the art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.
Books
When Capri Was the Place to Be
Jamie James gives a full, intriguing, detailed history of the island's visitors and expats, a wild panoply of writers, artists, rogues, madmen and madwomen, and thieves.
Art
Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
Art
Ben Morgan-Cleveland’s Dispirited Words
Isn’t this the last thing we want to admit? That we are not sure what anything means or what we are supposed to do?
Art
Anton van Dalen’s Valuable Lessons
Using simple means, often just pencil and paper, van Dalen has made careful, painstaking images of cyborgs, pigeons, and war machines.
Art
Color Is the Carrier of Emotion
Although it is very early in Jule Korneffel’s career, she has moved into a territory where color and materiality outweigh discursive content.
Art
Reconsidering Saul Steinberg
In an art world that celebrates the work of Raymond Pettibon, it seems to me that Steinberg deserves another look.