Oct 16, 2025
Arist Sally Mann With Leica flattened (photo by Maude Schuyler Clay) Artists in need of instruction and inspiration have no shortage of books to consult, from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way to Austin Kleon’s Steal Like An Artist or Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act....
Sep 26, 2025
Albert C. Barnes, c. 1920–25 (image via the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication) The quality and quantity of art at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation dazzle. West African masks, Diné jewelry, and decorative...
Sep 25, 2025
The period between 1945 and 1952 was an odd one in Japan’s history. The country’s cities and economy had been devastated by the victorious Allied forces during World War II. Under the paradoxical promise of American liberation, Japanese artists faced a dilemma that...
Sep 24, 2025
Sebastian Jäger, “Wound Man” (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin 8, fol. IVv (photo by Jack Hartnell) Even safely contained on the page, the Wound Man is...
Sep 22, 2025
The years before Michelangelo’s death were some of his most productive and most celebrated — including his work as the lead architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and his murals at the Pauline Chapel in Rome. He passed at age 88 in 1564, a long life even by today’s...
Sep 16, 2025
Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art? Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37. A tempestuous life snuffed out. A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh,...
Sep 15, 2025
From her designated Zoom rectangle, Wendy Kline is describing the séance she took part in to exorcise a deceased doctor from the world of gynecology. As I listen, the multimedia artist Nao Bustamante nods and smiles from her box in the chat, reminiscing. Kline, author...
Sep 8, 2025
Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all...
Sep 8, 2025
Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all...
Sep 3, 2025
Cover of Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 (2025) by André Breton, translated by Austin Carder (image courtesy City Lights Books) What does Surrealism, a major art movement in the 20th century, have to do with surrealism, a term often used to describe so...
Aug 26, 2025
I started reading Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (2022) splayed out languidly on the beach. Then I was sitting up, nerves ablaze, and then on the train, the world outside whizzing past unnoticed, and then in bed that night, my Kindle having...
Aug 20, 2025
In an 1889 Woman’s World article edited by Oscar Wilde, one writer called Liberty “the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.” Known for its bold floral fabrics since the late 19th century, the luxury department store on Great Marlborough Street continues to be...
Serie Zwei: Panic
$12,000.00
Serie Zwei: Burn
$9,000.00
Serie Eins: Thought
$11,800.00
Serie eins: Hope
$9,000.00
Serie eins: Solace
$11,500.00