Peter Schjeldahl , on the writings of Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky following MoMA's survey of 20th century abstract art: "The...

One of my husband's family members passed away recently and we inherited some of her belongings. Because she was warm, interesting and f...

Jeffrey Augustine Songco has a post up at the art:21 blog called " The End of Self Portraiture ." The idea-- that self-portraitur...

[Video: a song by Rachel's from the CD "Music for Egon Schiele." Shows a still image of the CD cover while music plays, a bl...

South African artist Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton. [Image: Squarish painting of the head and shoulders of Kate Middleton p...

Fashion illustration by Katie Henderson. [Image: a full-body semi-realistic drawing of a Black woman wearing a vanilla-beige dress, strapp...

[Video: black & white film of a cat spoofing French existentialist films. Henry the cat (a serious sounding adult male voice) narrates...

The Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia is still trying to figure out why and by whom this mural was obliterated. It was apparently a job by...

I just remembered, I have a blog. Sorry for the lack of posts; I've been on vacation in a place so remote it evades the clutches of the ...

Jack-o-lantern party. I made the big one in the middle; husband made the one on the right with the pentagram eye. My inspiration was Lelan...

This is a great essay. Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson discusses Zadie Smith's writing in which she compares two approaches to art (and writing...

I. Though my guilt-fear, rendered humdrum through bad habits, dictates this day I'll purge from My Big Binge, I am on strike for a b...

"Being seen": passive. "Appearing": active. Dove Promises chocolate wrapper reading, "You're gorgeous. Love...

*Durer's name has an umlaut over the U but I can't be troubled to type it in. Durer, self-portrait at 26. Durer, self-portr...

You can read the Part 1 of my art trip to Atlanta, about Richard Misrach's photos, here . On this day I was attempting to go see a per...

Thanks to the workers who built this country! Here's a little bit of US history regarding Labor Day and the labor movement: During...