Chris Ware in “Chicago” – Season 8 | Art21
Chris Ware, known for his New Yorker magazine covers, is hailed as a master of the comic art form. Ware’s complex graphic novels, which tell stories about people in suburban…
The Human Touch
I’ve been following parallel media stories about visual artists in two different fields. Each story is about artists who create fantastical images, but they’re worried they can no long practice…
Artist Demonstration: Laura Petrovich-Cheney
Learn about the artistic process of Laura Petrovich-Cheney, whose work is a profound assessment of contemporary issues merging with the traditional folk-art practices of quilting and woodworking.
Midwest Modern’s Architectural Road Trip
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen Lipnik’s photography. With more than fifty thousand followers, his account, Midwest Modern, is a transportive road trip through architecture, design, and, often, time.…
Breaking Free, Guan Xiao — Art21
From her Beijing studio, Guan Xiao resists the distractions and expectations of our modern era. The sculptor describes the meditative experience of making work in her studio, where she is…
Illuminations in Dark Times: An Embroidered Bestiary
When I began my new hobby in mid-February of 2020, I had no idea what the year had in store for me or the rest of the world. Over the…
NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money
This bubble will burst; it’s just a matter of when
How the Louvre Codified Essentialism in Art History
The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.
Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions — Art21
How does an artist come to grips with the uncontrollable? Filmed over the course of four years, artist Mariah Roberston experiments with photographic chemistry in her Brooklyn darkroom, leading to…
The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
In 1978, Serote and Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele founded the Medu Art Ensemble, an art collective that advocated for an end to the South African apartheid government through creative expression —…