by Ann Landi | Jan 17, 2021 | Features
I first encountered a couple of John Outterbridge’s trippy, sexy, irresistible sculptures on a press trip to Los Angeles in 2011 for the first iteration of Pacific Standard Time, the sprawling series of exhibitions devoted to art in southern California. It was love at...
by Ann Landi | Jan 3, 2021 | Features
In times like these it’s tempting to fantasize what life might have been like in another century, another culture, among a coterie of friends and acquaintances who had things on their minds other than the pandemic and insane politicians. I’ve occasionally wondered...
by Christine Taylor Patten | Nov 22, 2020 | Features
An Artist Reflects on Drawing During Tumultuous Times By Christine Taylor Patten When Pennsylvania’s votes were counted and the welcome winner of the 2020 presidential election was called early the next morning, I missed the excitement at first, having finally slept a...
by Paul OConnor | Oct 4, 2020 | Features
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, sculptor and photographer Paul O’Connor takes in his friend Debbie Long’s immersive installation. “Trippy” barely begins to describe the experience. By Paul O’Connor Several months have...
by Ann Landi | Oct 3, 2020 | Features
Compared with the duration of empires past—like those of ancient Rome or Great Britain—the U.S. occupies a relatively tiny span of time, a little more 234 years as the great democratic experiment, if we date the founding of the country to 1776. And so our monuments...
by Ann Landi | Sep 20, 2020 | Features
Everyone is a winner in the competition to replace those tired, toppled memorials In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May, protesters around the globe tore down monuments to the Confederacy, to slave traders, and to racist baddies of all stripes. I could not...
