Susan Schwalb

Susan Schwalb

It’s a rare artist who finds her medium and her methods early and then sticks with them, with little deviation, for more than four decades. But so it was for Susan Schwalb, who discovered the art of drawing with silverpoint in 1973 and never looked back. She was...
The Last of Marty (a Christmas Memory)

The Last of Marty (a Christmas Memory)

It’s a question people habitually ask in a place like Taos: How did you wind up (or, alternatively, end up) here? The connotations of that inquiry always feel to me somewhat negative, as though you’ve hit rock bottom and are staying at the YWCA in downtown Newark. But...
Eleanor Heartney: Postmodern Heretics

Eleanor Heartney: Postmodern Heretics

Eleanor Heartney Postmodern Heretics SoundCloud Facebook Eleanor Heartney is well known as a curator and critic, a long-time contributing editor of Art in America and the author of numerous books, including Art & Today, Postmodernism, and After the Revolution:...
The Motherhood Report

The Motherhood Report

No one claims it’s easy, but it is possible to combine two of the world’s oldest callings: artist and mother Way back in the 1980s, in the era of linebacker shoulder pads and dressing for success, I worked on a short-lived publication that billed itself as...
Liliana Bloch: Texas Strong

Liliana Bloch: Texas Strong

Liliana Bloch Texas Strong SoundCloud Facebook Gallerist Liliana Bloch has had one of the more unusual routes for an art dealer. In 1999, she fled war-torn El Salvador to forge a new life for herself in Dallas, TX, where she immersed herself in the local art scene by...