Deliciously Drawn: Five food illustrators who’ll make you hungry

By Steven Tang Have a snack handy because the artists we’re looking at today specialise in making people hungry. Like feeling the breeze on your face or the kick of a bass drum through your soul, the taste and texture of food is something everyone can relate to....

How to deal with copycats as a creative professional

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When someone blatantly copies your work, how should you respond? In the third of our advice series, creatives share their strategies. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma touches on one of...

Our Enduring Fascination With Ancient Roman Baths

What could be better in antiquity — and today — than relaxing at the Roman baths? From saunas to hot rooms to cold plunges, both public and private thermae catered to the populace of most Roman cities. But baths were more than just a space to get clean. Much like...

Israeli Artists Urge Judy Chicago to Withdraw Tel Aviv Exhibition

Over 50 artists and performers have signed a letter calling on Judy Chicago to withdraw her exhibition on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as defined by a United Nations committee this month. “Presenting art that speaks...

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See

Upon entering Kremer Pigments on 29th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, visitors were greeted by bags and bottles of color: lapis lazuli, vermillion, malachite, a wide variety of ochres and iron oxides, oils from walnut, sunflower. There was even a corner in the...

A Caribbean Garden in the Middle of Berlin 

BERLIN — Welto and the Sacred Bush transforms the upstairs gallery of Spore Initiative’s Berlin headquarters into a vibrant and unruly Caribbean garden. Instead of replicating a literal one, however, the show features contemporary art that embodies the...

Eric-Paul Riege Reconfigures the Monument 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. — Sauntering from the humid Providence streets into Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery (the Bell), the cool contrast of Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege’s hyper-modern black, gray, and white palette will surprise you. But the coup de grâce...

The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path 

SAN ANTONIO — Jody Folwell made major waves at the 1975 Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The artist’s first ceramic submission, “Half a Step” (1975), represented a giant leap away from Pueblo tradition. Though it was executed in a standard shape with a...