Visual Arts
California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.
Read MoreFar from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.
Read MoreSignificant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.
Read MoreEach of Susan Metrican’s pieces is coy and playful. Moving through the gallery is an adventure, visually and spatially.
Read MoreCohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches. She relates Berenson’s less admirable qualities without judging them.
Read MoreThere can be no doubt that Malevich was right, and that since February 1914 reason has played a distinctly subordinate role in human affairs, including art.
Read MoreFew artists in history have been as multifarious and prolific as Paul Klee – only Picasso and Ernst come to mind.
Read MoreArtist Richard Thomas Scott is currently working on his new Kickstarter project, “30 Paintings in 30 Days.” Sponsors pitch him inspirations (“Challenge me to paint something I’ve never done before!”) and he interprets them on canvas..
Read MoreArt Spiegelman believes that “MAD” magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
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