Interviews & Essays

Iowa-based multimedia artist Jim Shrosbree won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Focused on sculpture, drawing, and painting, Shrosbree’s work usually centers around abstract, primordial biomorphic forms. Mounted on the wall, or stacked on pedestals, his work interacts with the surrounding space in intriguing ways, creating a sense of mystery and wonder.

Grisaille made a name for itself in European artwork. Literally meaning “greyness” in French from the prefix gris, the method reached its peak of prominence during the sixteenth century. The technique was initially limited to underpainting but it soon took on a life of its own.

After 90 years of questioning the fate of four frescoes by Maxine Albro (1893-1966), originally painted on the exterior walls of The Ebell of Los Angeles in 1933, the murals were finally uncovered behind multiple layers of paint. 

Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into tapestries and installations–weaving together history, identity, resistance, and resilience.

Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.

For many, the term “printmaking” may conjure images of Enlightenment-era political cartoons or perhaps a Renaissance printing press, but printmaking is one of the oldest human art forms.

More recent cave painting discoveries, like a 2014 revelation of cave art in Indonesia, believed to be at least 36,000 years old, have altered our understanding of early humans altogether.

More major changes are being made by the Trump administration in an effort to reduce the federal bureaucracy.

Surrealism was one of many art styles that emerged after World War I as artists, alongside the rest of the world, struggled to digest an unprecedented degree of violence and loss.

A trove of ancient gold jewelry was unearthed in an excavation by the Egyptian-French Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples working alongside the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.