Mount Vesuvius Casts Its Shadow Over Below The Clouds

There must be a certain level of anxiety that comes with living in Naples, in the shadow of Vesuvius. It’s not just that it’s an active volcano that can blow its top at any minute, but also that it’s done so time and again throughout history, and that the most famous...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

LOS ANGELES — The Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in LA, provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary art throughout the greater region, attempting to give coherent form to its sprawling and heterogeneous artistic landscape. With this year’s edition, opening to the...

Immigrant and Protest Imagery Shine at NYC’s Photobook Fest 

In a bustling Thursday night preview of the International Center of Photography’s (ICP) annual Photobook Fest, held at the institution’s Lower Manhattan location through Sunday, October 5, a few booths seemed to capture and quell the anxieties of the...

Your Precious

This very short story originally appeared on my personal Substack, Clinsights, here.Editor’s Note: In two days, this post will be locked and is available only to paid members because we don’t want this duplicate content on the open web in a way that might...

Delaware Art Museum Presents Imprinted: Illustrating Race

Imprinted: Illustrating Race — assembled by the Norman Rockwell Museum with co-curator Robyn Phillips-Pendleton (University of Delaware) — examines more than three centuries of American illustration and how widely circulated imagery has reflected and shaped...