Books
The Children’s Book Author Who Was Also an Artist
Leo Lionni’s wide-ranging practice was kaleidoscopic and rooted in a strong sense of justice.
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The Slow Joy of James Siena’s Intricate Compositions
The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.
Art
The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.
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Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
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Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.
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Leon Kossoff’s Battles
Art can be, and often is, a species of combat, a fight to the death.
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Deb Sokolow’s Wackadoodle World of Design
Sokolow’s overarching concern in her current exhibition, Visualizing is with the coercive potential of built environments.
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50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling
An exhibition of Barbara Nessim’s drawings contextualizes the artist’s graphic portraiture of women against the backdrop of shifting gender roles and equity in the US.
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Abel Alejandre’s Chicano Cosmologies
A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”
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The Artwork That Inverted My Mental Map
“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.
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Jim Nutt's Art Deserves a Closer Look
By choosing the unforgiving surface of toothed paper and making irrevocable marks, Nutt enters a territory few American artists have dared to go.
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Inuit Culture Comes to Life in Shuvinai Ashoona's Drawings
In a new show in New York City, Ashoona’s memory-based compositions infuse truth coupled with whimsy surrounding life in the Arctic.