Staying Afloat
One of the first paintings of the Arctic landscape offers lessons in fortitude and resilience.
Family Portrait
Portraits of distant relatives survive a married couple’s home reorganization, the subjects&#…
The Monster Within
Psychiatrist and art critic Deborah Kostianovsky explains why she can’t turn away from a port…
Between Parlors and Oceans
Edward Hopper’s ‘Rooms by the Sea’ captures the psychic tension resulting from co…
What Does Platonic Form Have to Do with Art?
Photographs stage a confrontation between the idea of an object and its representation, and demonst…
Agnes Martin in Coenties Slip
“The work is so far from perfection because we ourselves are so far from perfection … That is why a…
Graphite Insomnia
“A deep black square can be an object or an opening. Sometimes you can get a surface so deep, rich,…
A Woman’s Work
In ‘A Woman’s Work’ Noelle shares her investigation into Grace Carpenter Hudson&#…
Walls Covered in Basquiat
“What might be if he lived? What does it mean that his image is defined and further commoditi…
How a 19th-Century Idea Could Rescue 21st-Century Art
October 20, 2020• Commentary, Reported, Visual Art