Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine [...]

Lynn Barber lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has degrees in microbiology and law, and intermittently works as a patent attorney. She enjoys playing [...]

Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision [...]

My first and likely only prediction for visual art in 2013: thanks to the retrospective that was organized by and debuted at the Los Angeles [...]

Dave Hickey recently announced his retirement from art criticism, citing his disgust with the circus that the art world—particularly the world of contemporary art—has become. He [...]

  Forget iPhone 5. Instead of buying the latest Apple gadget, I’ve added Magritte VI to my credit card bill. Nothing Apple sells stirs my covetousness [...]

Martin Parr’s newish book, Up and Down Peachtree, represents the South’s shiny capital with a mix of mean-spiritedness and generosity that recalls Richard Avedon’s long-ago [...]

I was a late-comer to Francesca Woodman‘s pictures but liked them right away. That was around 2003, and Woodman’s surrealism provided me with a lyrical counterpart to [...]

    This is an epic year for England. Well, for the UK, but mostly England. The Diamond Jubilee. The Olympics. The Tories sinking ever deeper [...]

I’ve loved Mona Hatoum‘s work since I first saw it in 1993 at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The exhibition was called Four Rooms [...]

  Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most [...]

    A few years ago, when I made large sculpture out of Lego pieces, I typically dismantled works after they were shown so that I could [...]

      Re-booting my brain after being challenged–Challenged!–on my Feeding the Beast blog.   So I’ve found a couple sources of useful ideas. One is a facebook post by Ken [...]

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Looking at two new books that recently landed in my lap, I’m reminded of Dave Hickey’s description of the therapeutic institution. That would be the [...]

  Local media enthusiasm has helped make ArtPrize an even bigger deal than its money has. Photo credit: Janet Tyson ArtPrize is an annual competition [...]

Material girl that I am, I love books. Holding them, smelling them, turning their pages, penciling notes in their margins. Finishing one and closing it [...]

It’s not the elusive Marfa Lights or the filming of Edna Ferber’s Giant or, for that matter, its stalwart ranching community, for which the town [...]

  It glides in under the radar while I’m enjoying a patch of midday sun or clear night sky: without warning, I miss Texas. Not [...]

It's been more than 150 years since Baudelaire wrote his essay Why Sculpture is Boring…