On Art
Commentary on visual art
From Meg Hitchcock’s Illuminations
(clockwise from left) Emerge from Invisibility and Become Visible; Of His Vast Almighty Head; The Hundreds and Thousands of My Forms; The Ferryman; The Nine Eyes Widely Opened
Delmar VanderZee’s Prairie Wisdom
Prairie Wisdom, by artist and biologist Delmar VanderZee, is a 15-tile sculpture of impressions of plants from the tallgrass prairie that used to range across the north-central ...
José Ignacio Fletes Cruz’s The Second Chance: The Ark of Noah
The flood story makes modern readers squirm....
Images from Michael Petry’s Gifts of Apollo (top) and At the Foot of the Gods (bottom)
What happens to old gods? As fantasy writers from Neil Gaiman to George R. R....
Peter Howson’s Imposter
Peter Howson has been described as a modern-day Hieronymus Bosch for his detailed and disquieting depictions of the Gospel Passion narratives, like this graphite drawing on gessoed wood of the mock...
Fanny Lechevalier Lafon’s
Untitled work
Untitled work
(digital collage incorporating photograph by Arsen Petrov and painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)...
Doreen R. Martinez and Ronald J. Martinez’s Santa Maria de la Paz
At the United Church of Santa Fe, a small bulto of Mary sits on a stand near the entrance to the sanctuary....