W e live in a hyper-political yet curiously unrevolutionary age, one of hashtags rather than barricades. Perhaps that’s why so many writers this year have looked wistfully back to a time when strongly...
12.02.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesGertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century, ” she once boasted. “Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me. ” Som...
12.04.2025 Yahoo.com and 1 sites
Los Angeles never had Confederate monuments. Until now. A joint exhibition hosted by The Brick , an independent nonprofit art space, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , places decommissi...
12.01.2025 Forbes.com
Despite losing an estimated $1 million in business due to Hurricane Helene, East Fork Pottery is having a successful year. This week, the 15-year old ceramic manufacturer, known for its sleek and colo...
12.05.2025 Publicradioeast.org and 3 sites
It’s my annual list of the some of the best books I read this year. I call it “Books I’m Not Recommending” because I’m personally resistant to recommendations. But I can tell you what I consider to be the best books I read. Poetry The largest single category of my 2025 books is, as it has been for several years, poetry. I read a considerable number of really fine poetry collections, and my reviews end up at Tweetspeak Poetry. If I had to pick one, it would likely be an older one – Autumn Journal...
12.03.2025 Faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com
Dear Readers, Hello, December! I’m grateful to everyone who has already supported Two Coats of Paint 2025 Year-end Fundraising Campaign . With roughly four weeks left, we still need additional contrib...
11.30.2025 Twocoatsofpaint.com
If you haven’t made a day trip recently to the elegant, extraordinary Muscatine Art Center , you must put it on your holiday wish list this month. The 1908 mansion, which sits in a residential neighbo...
12.04.2025 Wvik.org
Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde This milestone exhibition celebrates the pioneering art dealer Berthe Weill, who launched the careers of Picasso, Matisse and many more, but has be...
12.03.2025 Studiointernational.com
Yevheniia Podurets, Contributing Photographer I went to the Yale University Art Gallery on one of those first cold November days when the need for a thick wool coat — and the sudden disappearance of d...
12.02.2025 Yaledailynews.com
Willy Bo Richardson has fielded variations of the query “Why do you paint stripes? ” — including from his then-8-year-old daughter — so frequently that he good-naturedly bases his artist statement around the question. The short answer is, “they’re no...
12.05.2025 Santafenewmexican.com