Mike BidloNo Picasso (Girl Before the Mirror, 1932)1986 Oil on canvas, 64.17 x 51.18 in. (163 x 130 cm) Collection…
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“The Waning of Justice” by Charles Atlas at Columbus College of Art and Design
Carlos Atlas, The Decline of Justice, detail, 2015, video installation with sound. Courtesy of Espaço Arte Contemporânea. Approaching contemporary art, …
Water and the desert at the Palm Springs Art Museum
Edward S. Curtis, Getting Water – Havasupai, Plate 75 (from The North American Indian), 1903, photogravure on cloth, gift of …
"A Free and Unspoiled Land" is not a novel. In a new novel by Maggie Kast.
The world of Maggie Kast's 2015 novel A Free, Unsullied Land is not a place where many of …
“Couture and Attitude in 20th Century Fashion at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian, 1890–1973); Jean Clement (French, 1900–1949), Necklace1938, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift …
Of Ugly Ducklings and Contemporary Art
The "swan song" brings to mind a silly image of feathered magnificence emptied into flabby, supine tubes. Perhaps …
I reconsider the need for criticism
Ray Sasaki Speaks Trumpet The work of running a young publishing house was so exhausting that I concluded a few months ago that …
A group improvisation by the Tone Road Ramblers
This is a long-awaited opportunity for me to write about the Tone Road Ramblers when readers can experience…
“Summer Ponds – Betsy DeFusco’s New Work” at the Ohio State Faculty Club
How lovely to have a backyard pond like Betsy Furlong DeFusco has, with time to contemplate her inspiration on canvas, …