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There’s a saying that artworks either look good from 30 feet away, or from three feet away. This is true of the works of both Kehinde Wiley and David McGee.
Imagine you suddenly had a chunk of free time with no responsibilities. What would you finally have the chance to do?
I have written about art for 23 years, longer if you count reviews in my college’s paper. I have spent a lot of time with a lot of artworks, and
Two images of women and waterfalls, from the movie Brave, and in a 1926 watercolor by the artist Rockwell Kent. Implausibly, it feels like freedom.
This week Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) announced that he is no longer following President Trump’s Twitter feed. Predictably, the alt-right blogosphere greeted this news with squeals of mocking glee. But
Yesterday I stepped down as the publisher of Glasstire, nearly 19 years after founding it. I remember the beginning vividly: how it made sense to use a website to knit
“Trust me, it is possible to be an artist and have nothing for sale.” – Jim Pirtle I studied entrepreneurship in business school, and I’ll never forget one time when
Note: The best art being made today does not fit neatly into any of these categories, but it usually touches at least one of them. 1. Mere Decoration I say
An interview with Peter Plagens, the abstract painter who is perhaps best known not as an artist, but as the longtime art critic for Newsweek Magazine. Plagens wrote for Newsweek
This week we published our first article in Spanish, a translation of an essay by Ruben Cordova about the San Antonio artist Jesse Treviño. This marks the first time Glasstire
Last month, an interesting article by Ferris Jabr appeared in the New York Times Magazine. It was about why beauty exists in the natural world. Apparently scientists are having arguments.
“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Wearing the Verge This week the sporting goods company Nike released images of its new Air Max 1
I was pleased to stumble on the following poems recently in a little volume titled Poems of Gratitude. These mini-anthologies put out by Everyman’s Library are really wonderful; they’re among
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently acquired a marvelous drawing of a steeple for the Rouen Cathedral. Attributed to the master mason of the building, Roulland le Roux, it
[The following is the first in a series of voter awareness articles we will be running this fall in advance of the national elections in November. Your vote matters. Regiser
This summer the MFAH unveiled the first half of its $450 million campus expansion. Here are some things you could do with $450 million dollars: Buy Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator
Hey painters: Can you do this? If so, then you deserve to be called a painter. This is your competition. I’m not saying you should be interested in painting fancy
The writer Rob Horning recently published an insightful essay in the summer issue of the magazine Even, about the implications of the selfie-driven museum experience, and the transformation of
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