visual arts features
The Eco-Critical Photographer: An Interview With Subhankar Banerjee
Subhankar Banerjee’s photographic urges take him to the far reaches of the world--the Arctic and Siberia--where he captures images that ask us to contemplate our global interconnectedness.
The Activist Artist: An Interview With Wendy Tetsu
San Francisco-based artist and teacher Wendy Tetsu discusses her latest project: a labor of love that galvanizes one community around its social and environmental history.
A Guide to Museum Women
A comical look at the different types of women you're bound to find in an art gallery, from curator to docent.
Interview with Photographer William L. Wacker
Artist and wanderlust William Wacker shares images and impressions gathered during his recent tour of Asia, why he needs to catch up on vampire flicks and how, when it comes to art, it’s sometimes best to “shoot from the hip.”
The Residue of Interchange: An Interview with Painter Joan Curran
Philadelphia-based painter Joan Curran creates urban still lives inspired by the interaction between humans and nature--a constantly fluctuating relationship that reveals both beauty and excess.
Laying Bricks to Build Social Change: An Interview with Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee
The co-authors of Reproduce & Revolt, a twenty-first century primer on creating socially radical art, discuss the power of visual culture--and our ability to use visual tools to make change.
Killing Ground, Healing Ground: An Interview with Photographer John Huddleston
Armed with a camera, Middlebury College professor John Huddleston makes pilgrimages into the American landscape to capture touchstones for shared cultural memory.
Colliding with Nature: An Interview with Jason Middlebrook
The relationship between humans and nature--and "humans' endless fear and misunderstanding" of nature--is at the center of artist Jason Middlebrook’s work.
The New Street Renegades: An Interview with Francesca Gavin
The London-based author of Street Renegades: New Underground Art talks about how today's underground artists are taking Guy Debord's ideas to city streets and forcing everyone to take a look.
Shifting Scales & the City: An Interview with Jane South
Artist Jane South discusses how her large-scale, wall-mounted constructions explore the "phenomenological experience of architecture."
Titties: A Review of Imperium
The Catalan performance collective La Fura dels Baus has remained one of Spain’s most compelling and relevant artistic exports since its founding in 1979. The story its performances tell, though, has never really been nearly as important as the way in which that story is staged. Perhaps it is for this reason that, more often than not, throughout the course of La Fura’s well-decorated history, the collective has staged updated and, at times demented, versions of well-trod plotlines.
Up-and-Coming Artist: Ash Larose
Ash LaRose is a Burlington-based photographer whose images explore the beauty--and vulnerability--of young women. More so, she uses the camera as a means of exploring feminine identity, both her own, through self-portraiture, and that of others, friends and strangers alike.
Interview with Stephen Carter, Ceramicist
You could say that Steven Carter is a quilter – he patches together material to tell a story the same way his aunt and grandmother before him did. Then again, you could also call him a scientist, carefully determining the temperatures that will yield the perfect palate of colors. As a ceramicist, his medium demands as much careful attention to creative impulse as to predetermined variables.
In the Studio with Painter Kim Frohsin
San Francisco artist Kim Frohsin talks to Alexandra Tursi about her latest explorations, clears the air about her association with the Bay Area Figurative School, talks about publishing her first book of art, and details the personal relationships that come from working closely with models.
A Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonist Carolita Johnson
Carolita Johnson has an innate feel for the art of making cartoons. "I've always done whatever I can do, and cartooning is one of those things, a natural form of expression after reading all those paperback Charlie Brown books," she explains.
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