I’ve embraced this age-old, humble and assertive material; learning techniques from the ancients has helped me adapt concrete to my art practice.

Käthe Kollowitz used her fierce talent to tell the truth about the moral tragedies of her time and place—about the terrible price we pay for

My family had a picnic on a recent weekend, celebrating my dad’s 91st birthday. We passed around some photos of his time in Japan after WWII ended. I listened as several around the table described their time in the military (and now, as I’m editing this, I remember it was Memorial Day weekend). My father called himself lucky to come of age between World War II and the Korean War. One family member was going to be drafted during the Vietnam war, so immediately after college he

I'm one of those people who always reads the labels in art museums. And some art has become memorable , first for the experience of...

Question: is all art inherently political? Here’s one way to think about contemporary art: it’s an expression of how artists interact...

Symbols are powerful because they’re a shortcut to the brain, to the soul. Few are as powerfully evocative in the modern western world than