Interview
Meet the Artist Running for State Rep in Rural Pennsylvania
I always remember Kate McGraw’s artworks as a colorful sprawl of integrated textures — equal parts playful, abstract, and socially aware.
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Comics
Purse Strings
Budget, budget, budget.
Art
The Sculptor Who Merged Cherokee and Art Deco Styles
TULSA, Okla. — Willard Stone's wood-carving style might be described as Art Deco Cherokee, with a distinct, streamlined movement and natural themes that reflect his indigenous heritage.
Comics
Art, Love, and Smoking
I made a silly drawing of Dave Hickey & Joni Mitchell smoking 20 ft. from a doorway.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, CATS in the London tube, Shriver's cultural appropriation heard around the world, Clinton's white supremacy explainer, normalizing Trump, Gawken, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Stair
"History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Denis Johnson's ‘Jesus’ Son’
Reflected in sentences of throbbing beauty, the blind urge to self-destruction becomes a visionary quest
Art
A Different History
The title of the painting I had been looking at, “Adam and Eve and the Goats” (2016), surprised me. I had thought it was retelling of a classical myth, a subject that Kyle Staver has explored with verve and humor before.
Art
A Heap of Broken Bodies
I want to start my review of Endymion: Recent Paintings by Clintel Steed at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects/SHFAP with a statement the artist made to Jennifer Samet in an interview that appeared on her blog, "Beer with a Painter."
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Katherine Bradford
“Jen! Welcome to Maine!” Katherine Bradford exclaims brightly as she spots me crossing the street.
Music
How Do Rock Heroes Sing?: Beyoncé, Rihanna, and the Megastar Vocal Style
The relevant split isn’t rock vs. pop (both are “pop” artists) but expressive vs. functional, always the key distinction in how pop music presents itself.
Books
Testing Form: Novels by Alejandro Zambra and Matías Celedón
Solely in geographical terms, Chilean culture has issued forth from a matrix of constraint. The Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada remarked that “Chile is perhaps the most poorly located and poorly shaped nation on the planet.