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Forwad MOMENTUM
Artist Lisa Gleim shares the evolution of her career and how she grew into her preferred medium of pastels
TEAM of ARTISTS
Sculptor Bryce Pettit and a crew of artisans illuminate the bronze process in Utah.
PROCESS AND PURPOSE
Bobby Beals presents the first solo exhibition of Coulter Prehm's work in a decade, opening with a special culinary collaboration.
The Knife's Edge
Actor, artist and adrenaline junkie Michael McGrady finds balance in the drama of paint.
The Art Lover's Guide to Collecting Fine Art in New England, Cape Cod & the Islands
July marks the peak of the summer season on the East Coast and it's especially festive in the picturesque towns that populate the New England seaboard and the quaint islands around it.
Luis Alvarez Roure: Portrait of Felix Oduyemi
Unveiling spotlights a recently completed portrait commission or figurative work from some of the best and most active members of the Portrait Society of America. This month, Kimberly Azzarito, Assistant Director of the Portrait Society, interviewed Luis Alvarez Roure about his recently completed portrait commission of Felix Oduyemi.
A Summer Celebration
The Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach returns for its annual showcase of award-winning California artists in a two-month-long affair.
Art in the Outdoors
The 39th Annual Sculpture in the Park Show and Sale returns to Loveland, Colorado, to celebrate the art form in all its glory.
PATRICK KRAMER Masterworks in Ruins
In his second solo show at Arcadia Contemporary, Patrick Kramer offers an array of \"destroyed masterpieces.\" Kramer recreates famous paintings as if they had been damaged in some way.
DEPTH of DIMENSION
Among the ancient figurines of prehistory is the Venus of Willendorf, a four-and-a-half-inch limestone carving with enlarged breasts, stomach and thighs.
Mythology-Making
The uncompromising F. Scott Hess reflects on completing a massive biblical-themed mural and the new direction his work is headed.
Summer Scenes
Contemporary paintings of New England are as varied as its architecture, landscapes and weather.
Building Better Worlds
Tips for making your story concrete.
THE MEUSEUM OF HUMAN HISTORY
READING The Museum of Human History felt like listening to a great harmonic hum. After I finished it I found the hum lingering in my ears. Its echo continued for days.
The Sea Elephants
SHASTRI Akella's poised, elegant debut, The Sea Elephants, is a bildungsroman of a young man who joins a street theater group in India after fleeing his father's violent disapproval, the death of his twin sisters, and his mother's unfathomable grief.
Literary MagNet
When Greg Marshall began writing the essays that would become his memoir, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It (Abrams Press, June 2023), he wanted to explore growing up in Utah and what he calls \"the oddball occurrences in my oddball family.\" He says, \"I wanted to call the book Long-Term Side Effects of Accutane and pitch it as Six Feet Under meets The Wonder Years.\" But in 2014 he discovered his diagnosis of cerebral palsy, information his family had withheld from him for nearly thirty years, telling him he had \"tight tendons\" in his leg. This revelation shifted the focus of the project, which became an \"investigation into selfhood, uncovering the untold story of my body,\" says Marshall. Irreverent and playful, Leg reckons with disability, illness, queerness, and the process of understanding our families and ourselves.
The Sorrows of Others
AS I read each story in Ada Zhang’s brilliant collection, The Sorrows of Others, within the first few paragraphs— sometimes the first few sentences— I felt I understood the characters intimately and profoundly, such that every choice they made, no matter how radical, ill-advised, or baffling to those around them, seemed inevitable and true to me.
We Are a Haunting
TYRIEK White’s debut novel, We Are a Haunting, strikes me as both a love letter to New York City and a kind of elegy.
RADICAL ATTENTION
IN HER LATEST BOOK, THE LIGHT ROOM: ON ART AND CARE, PUBLISHED BY RIVERHEAD BOOKS IN JULY, KATE ZAMBRENO CELEBRATES THE ETHICAL WORK OF CAREGIVING, THE SMALL JOYS OF ORDINARY LIFE, AND AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD WITHIN HUMAN SPACES.
The History of a Difficult Child
MIHRET Sibhat's debut novel begins with God dumping rain on a small Ethiopian town as though. He were mad at somebody.
COLIN FRASER: Finding Freedom in Constraint
Scottish painter Colin Fraser is a master of egg tempera, an ancient and demanding medium that he finds freeing
VIVID COLOR
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo drew with natural chalks in the late 15th century, usually in red, white and black. In the early 16th century powdered color pigments were mixed with a binder such as gum Arabic, fish or animal glue and formed into sticks to provide a wide variety of colors
Elegant Design
A well-executed drawing and composition make up the core tenets of Jose Lopez Vergara’'s oil paintings
New Blood
Since opening Robert Lange Studios in 2005, husband and wife owners Robert and Megan Lange have represented hundreds of artists. The through-line across all those years has been their own work. Both Robert and Megan—painting as Megan Aline—are successful artists themselves
An Artful Illusion
The unparalleled spectacle that is Pageant of the Masters celebrates 90 years of bringing art to life in Laguna Beach
THE END of the ROAD
In their first group show, a foursome of artists present new works influenced by life on their very own scrap of the Wild West
Naomi Brown: Desert Glow
Painting in the alla prima method, Naomi Brown captures the saturated colors of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts
The Truth Within
Whether or not you believe in the soul or the psyche, everyone has an inner truth that guides their perception of the world around them
RENATO MUCCILLO: The Promised Land
It is forever the magic hour of dusk in Renato Muccillo’s dreamy display of jewel-like panels at Arcadia Contemporary
Into the BORDERLANDS
Painter Adrian Cox takes you on a visual journey into a fully-developed mythical realm between the real and imagined