Books
A Mother-Daughter Inheritance Illustrated in Thread and Ink
Galician artist Bea Lema navigates themes of generational trauma and healing, tenderly illustrating the story of a daughter who desperately wants to protect her mother.
Lauren Moya Ford
Lauren Moya Ford is a writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in Apollo, Artsy, Atlas Obscura, Flash Art, Frieze, Glasstire, Mousse Magazine, and other publications.
Books
An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers
The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day.
Books
Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Never-Ending Quest for Beauty
Natalie Dykstra meticulously combs through archival material to fashion a biography of the inimitable, complex arts patron, who ordered her private letters to be destroyed after her death.
Art
A Japanese Painter’s Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaiʻi
After moving to Honolulu in his early 70s, the Gen'ichirō Inokuma drew inspiration from the rainbows, night sky, and other natural phenomena of his new home.
Art
Why Did Art History Marginalize Janet Sobel?
A new show at the Menil Collection in Houston raises important questions about the ways that we remember and historicize artists.
Art
Isabel Quintanilla’s Dreamy Realism
The same small Duralex glass cup appears repeatedly in the artist’s sparse and intimate still lifes, evincing her uncanny ability to capture light.
Art
A Spanish Artist’s Dreamy Homages to Her Homeland
Undercutting dominant narratives of Spanish modernism, Delhy Tejero was part of a community of artists whose avant-garde work forged a new sense of national identity.
Art
Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain
The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Art
Javier Arce’s Collaboration With the Spanish Wilderness
The artist considers his own place in the complex history of landscape painting through canvases stretched imperfectly on wood from trees around his home.
Art
A Galician Artist’s Return Home
Vicente Blanco’s quietly complex drawings depict disorienting, spellbinding scenes in which things are rarely what they initially seem.
Art
Madrid’s Enterprising Heritage Seen Through Its Signs
With their exhibition of signs, Madrid collective Paco Graco has created a catalyst for conversations about the city's past, present, and future.
Art
Prado Show Reveals the Hidden Artworks on the Backs of Masterpieces
On the Reverse tells an alternative history of Western art by drawing attention to the rears of paintings.