Features From Previous Issues

Dynamic Ceramics

A rust-splashed black-glazed ovoid bottle-vase, Song Dynasty (960–1279)

With changing tastes, growing interest from China’s middle class and ancient objects emerging from the ground, there are some new opportunities in the hugely diverse realm of Chinese earthenware. Continue reading →

Freedom of the Press

Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 2012, silkscreen in 246 colors, edition of 80

The publishers that fostered a printmaking renaissance in the 1960s are every bit as active today, helping artists create original works and bring them to an ever-wider public. Continue reading →

Writ in Water

Thomas Girtin, Durham Cathedral and Castle.

Before there was photography there was watercolor, a demanding medium that British artists mastered while documenting life and landscape at home and abroad. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) The most portable of paints created centuries of enduring views. Since the … Continue reading →