Interview
Beer With a Painter: Leslie Baum
“After the 2016 election, my work changed. I wanted to immerse myself in beauty and connect with something larger than the present moment, to not lose perspective.”
Weekend
Art
The Perfectly Imperfect Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry, the celebrated potter, is indefatigable on the subject of himself.
Art
The Eternal Glow of Tiffany's Sacred Glass
The term “stained glass” hardly gets at the vast variety of techniques and range of effects achieved by Tiffany and his peers. It can almost be called sculpted light.
Art
Do the Old Masters Still Speak to Us?
Now and then, I suspect that an honest art writer might feel as if he or she is losing it.
Art
Charlotte Perriand's Prescient Designs for Modern Living
While working with Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, for 10 years, Perriand advanced her vision of modern living.
Art
Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future
Robyn O’Neil’s oversized, multi-panel graphite drawings resemble a graphic novel told across multiple walls and rooms. This narrative storytelling makes sense, as O’Neil's cited influences are more literary than artistic.
Art
Sculpture Does Not Need to Be Permanent to Be Great
Robert Grosvenor unmasks the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture.
Art
Required Reading
In this week's Twitter-heavy edition, the world's second largest diamond, reviewing American Dirt, gentrification and the Istanbul Biennial, Twitterstorians, emoji RIPs, and more.
Music
The Marvelous Variety of Straightforward Rap
Fans and critics will tell you that 2019 was a lousy year for consensus in rap.
Books
Welcome Back, William Gibson
In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.
Books
The Extraordinary Ordinary in Prose Poems
For Maxine Chernoff, language is both the promise and the breaking of the promise.
Art
Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.