Nehemiah Cisneros: Legend of a Wicked City

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Nehemiah Cisneros: Legend of a Wicked City

What captures you at first is the density of information. On each canvas, you are immersed in an imagination that is devouring every detail of the subconscious and attempting to make each painting an June 24, 2024
rafa esparza: A Sense of Generosity

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rafa esparza: A Sense of Generosity

Something I couldn’t stop thinking about from my conversation with rafa esparza is that art is truly healing. Sometimes it's hard to evaluate and measure the impact. There is no real data on the vi June 17, 2024
Ivy Haldeman: Notions of Slippage

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Ivy Haldeman: Notions of Slippage

One of the things I love about Ivy Haldeman is the way she lets you know that the world isn't quite what it seems. Everything is recognizable as you try to figure out why something out of context fee June 10, 2024
Noelia Towers: Empathy and Enlightenment

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Noelia Towers: Empathy and Enlightenment

A successful short story may be a writer’s greatest challenge. There’s no space for meandering, verbose flourishes, a cast of characters, and the landing has to stick. Only a confident voice can June 03, 2024
Katherine Bernhardt: Everlasting Butter

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Katherine Bernhardt: Everlasting Butter

Refreshment is rare at an art fair, until you round a corner and meet an instantly recognizable Pink Panther in the shower, an oozy E.T., or a colorfield of Crocs. Like running into your coolest frie May 28, 2024
Bony Ramirez: Cutthroat

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Bony Ramirez: Cutthroat

At one point in our conversation, Bony Ramirez referred to his work as "cutthroat,” and I kind of fell in love with the word as soon as he uttered it. As I let it linger in my mind, it began to dan April 22, 2024
The SPRING 2024 Cover Story: Trapped in Light with Christian Rex van Minnen

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The SPRING 2024 Cover Story: Trapped in Light with Christian Rex van Minnen

We arrive at things from the inside out, from within our experience to everything outside of it. The wonderful thing about Christian Rex van Minnen and other great artists like him is a conviction th April 15, 2024
Deng “Demo” Shiqing: The People Listener

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Deng “Demo” Shiqing: The People Listener

Whether in-person or in the movies, Deng “Demo” Shiqing has a habit of listening to other people’s conversations. A recent viewing of Emerald Fennell’s black-comedy thriller Saltburn echoes t April 09, 2024
The Past, Present and Future of Jameson Green

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The Past, Present and Future of Jameson Green

Freedom is a term we often use when trying to explain the essence of a good painter, or a good artist in general; that they show a sense of freedom, of an originality that makes their art feel fresh, April 01, 2024
Jean Jullien: The Art of Escapism

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Jean Jullien: The Art of Escapism

Jean Jullien is telling me about a trilogy of shows he created about his life on a January day from his studio in Paris, when I realize he might have the greatest output of a contemporary artist I ha March 25, 2024
The Dadaism of Dada Khanyisa

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The Dadaism of Dada Khanyisa

Cape Town-based artist Dada Khanyisa isn't a Dadaist, so maybe the title here might be a little misleading. But as I thought about the work Khanyisa makes, a mix of politically astute and what is the March 18, 2024
Kevin Christy: A Step Up the Ghost Ladder

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Kevin Christy: A Step Up the Ghost Ladder

Kevin Christy is one of my very few art-buddies, and now that I think about it, probably my only one. I live in a self-imposed art-vacuum in Orange County, and he lives in Los Angeles, so when I driv March 13, 2024
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