August 2025 Art News

Lines in Four Directions is a 90-by-72-foot sculpture by the late artist Sol LeWitt. It was mounted on the west-facing side of a building owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) at 10 W Jackson Blvd in Chicago’s Loop District. 

Utagawa Hiroshige, born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797, was the creator of over 5,000 designs for color woodblock prints, hundreds of paintings, and dozens of illustrated books.

When artist Ruth Asawa was a little girl, she and her siblings killed time on the family farm sitting on horse-drawn carts and tracing hourglass patterns in the dirt with their toes, a shape that turns in on itself, blurring the distinction between inner and outer borders. Other times, she unwound wire tags labeling crates and then reshaped them into bracelets, rings, and figures.

Nestled against the Sangre de Cristo mountains in downtown Santa Fe, Nedra Matteucci Galleries is a 15,000 square-foot adobe building housing one of the most stunning collections in the region. Its prominence as a respected art institution and one-of-a-kind character has led to its legacy as a legendary Santa Fe landmark for over 50 years.