Corita Kent, “Untitled, Red Shoes, Los Angeles” (1967), 35 mm slide, Corita Slide Collection (photo courtesy Corita Art Center) from Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images in Los Angeles.
NEW YORK—To remember that photography was even once a fresher medium than it is today. I mean, jolting. In the last century, when photo stories... Read More
Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613
No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum that one must be committed—that... Read More
DOWNTOWN—In what, in my view, is becoming a growing convergence between the worlds of theater, and the special amalgamation of fashion and art that has... Read More
Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing. Photo courtesy of IBM
Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Read More
