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Contemporary Photography: Multiple Exposures
Whether they’re inspired by Internet surveillance images or 17th-century portraits, contemporary artists draw on a wide range of material to stretch photography’s limits of expression.
Duane Michals: The Wizard of Gramercy Park
Duane Michals has always chosen to photograph the things you can’t see, and now he’s using paint to show us things you can’t photograph.
Chicago Style
The Second City has first-class art to see and buy, from museums to galleries to auction houses.
Young Victorian Punks
Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art mounts a sweeping exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—the first U.S. retrospective of its kind.
Helen Frankenthaler: Beyond the Sea
The late Helen Frankenthaler famously “departed” from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career.
Dynamic Ceramics
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.
Freedom of the Press
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.
Writ in Water
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 18th century, watercolorists have packed up their brushes and worked near and far, recreating everything…
Screen Stars
Japanese folding screens, delicate but durable, enshrine centuries of painting tradition.


































