Art
One Painting Can Go a Long Way
William Tillyer's five-part painting “The Golden Striker” (2018), based on a landscape by John Constable, affirms that the possibilities of light cannot be exhausted.
John Yau
Books
One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
Books
One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
Art
Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
Art
Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
Art
Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
Art
Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.
Art
An Artist Who Turns Detritus into Talismans
Nicola Ginzel’s choice of found materials speaks to a society in which disposability is a commonplace, deeply ingrained mechanism.
Art
Surprises from Wayne Thiebaud, Master Draftsman
Thiebaud, just a few months shy of his 98th birthday, offers a glimpse into the thinking behind his five decades of work.
Art
A Sculptor Cuts an Uncanny Figure
Everything in the work of sculptor Sarah Peters is an act of reimagining and melding together disparate sources into something that becomes curiouser and curiouser.
Art
Terry Winters's Inspired Rejections
Winters’s painting technique argues against gestural abstraction’s sweeping structures and minimalism’s solid-color surfaces.
Film
An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others
We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.