PROCESS AND PURPOSE

Bobby Beals presents the first solo exhibition of Coulter Prehm's work in a decade, opening with a special culinary collaboration.

The Knife's Edge

Actor, artist and adrenaline junkie Michael McGrady finds balance in the drama of paint.

Luis Alvarez Roure: Portrait of Felix Oduyemi

Unveiling spotlights a recently completed portrait commission or figurative work from some of the best and most active members of the Portrait Society of America. This month, Kimberly Azzarito, Assistant Director of the Portrait Society, interviewed Luis Alvarez Roure about his recently completed portrait commission of Felix Oduyemi.

Art in the Outdoors

The 39th Annual Sculpture in the Park Show and Sale returns to Loveland, Colorado, to celebrate the art form in all its glory.

Summer Scenes

Contemporary paintings of New England are as varied as its architecture, landscapes and weather.

A Summer Celebration

The Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach returns for its annual showcase of award-winning California artists in a two-month-long affair.

Mythology-Making

The uncompromising F. Scott Hess reflects on completing a massive biblical-themed mural and the new direction his work is headed.

PATRICK KRAMER Masterworks in Ruins

In his second solo show at Arcadia Contemporary, Patrick Kramer offers an array of \"destroyed masterpieces.\" Kramer recreates famous paintings as if they had been damaged in some way.

DEPTH of DIMENSION

Among the ancient figurines of prehistory is the Venus of Willendorf, a four-and-a-half-inch limestone carving with enlarged breasts, stomach and thighs.

Building Better Worlds

Tips for making your story concrete.

THE MEUSEUM OF HUMAN HISTORY

READING The Museum of Human History felt like listening to a great harmonic hum. After I finished it I found the hum lingering in my ears. Its echo continued for days.

The Sea Elephants

SHASTRI Akella's poised, elegant debut, The Sea Elephants, is a bildungsroman of a young man who joins a street theater group in India after fleeing his father's violent disapproval, the death of his twin sisters, and his mother's unfathomable grief.

Literary MagNet

When Greg Marshall began writing the essays that would become his memoir, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It (Abrams Press, June 2023), he wanted to explore growing up in Utah and what he calls \"the oddball occurrences in my oddball family.\" He says, \"I wanted to call the book Long-Term Side Effects of Accutane and pitch it as Six Feet Under meets The Wonder Years.\" But in 2014 he discovered his diagnosis of cerebral palsy, information his family had withheld from him for nearly thirty years, telling him he had \"tight tendons\" in his leg. This revelation shifted the focus of the project, which became an \"investigation into selfhood, uncovering the untold story of my body,\" says Marshall. Irreverent and playful, Leg reckons with disability, illness, queerness, and the process of understanding our families and ourselves.

We Are a Haunting

TYRIEK White’s debut novel, We Are a Haunting, strikes me as both a love letter to New York City and a kind of elegy.

RADICAL ATTENTION

IN HER LATEST BOOK, THE LIGHT ROOM: ON ART AND CARE, PUBLISHED BY RIVERHEAD BOOKS IN JULY, KATE ZAMBRENO CELEBRATES THE ETHICAL WORK OF CAREGIVING, THE SMALL JOYS OF ORDINARY LIFE, AND AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD WITHIN HUMAN SPACES.

The History of a Difficult Child

MIHRET Sibhat's debut novel begins with God dumping rain on a small Ethiopian town as though. He were mad at somebody.

The Sorrows of Others

AS I read each story in Ada Zhang’s brilliant collection, The Sorrows of Others, within the first few paragraphs— sometimes the first few sentences— I felt I understood the characters intimately and profoundly, such that every choice they made, no matter how radical, ill-advised, or baffling to those around them, seemed inevitable and true to me.

THE END of the ROAD

In their first group show, a foursome of artists present new works influenced by life on their very own scrap of the Wild West

An Artful Illusion

The unparalleled spectacle that is Pageant of the Masters celebrates 90 years of bringing art to life in Laguna Beach

COLIN FRASER: Finding Freedom in Constraint

Scottish painter Colin Fraser is a master of egg tempera, an ancient and demanding medium that he finds freeing

VIVID COLOR

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo drew with natural chalks in the late 15th century, usually in red, white and black. In the early 16th century powdered color pigments were mixed with a binder such as gum Arabic, fish or animal glue and formed into sticks to provide a wide variety of colors

Elegant Design

A well-executed drawing and composition make up the core tenets of Jose Lopez Vergara’'s oil paintings

New Blood

Since opening Robert Lange Studios in 2005, husband and wife owners Robert and Megan Lange have represented hundreds of artists. The through-line across all those years has been their own work. Both Robert and Megan—painting as Megan Aline—are successful artists themselves

STEPHEN WRIGHT: A Wave's-eye View

Countless artists have pictured the sea, none, however, like Stephen Wright. His hyper-realistic wave’s-eye-view paintings might make onlookers feel like they have water up their nose

FRANK GONZALES: Sacred Spaces

The comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, “At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.”

BRIAN MCCLEAR: Double Takes

For artist Brian McClear, painting still life and portraiture—often working on both concurrently—is a fascinating pleasure

JUNYI LIU: Paint It Red

A new body of work by Junyi Liu is being highlighted during an online solo exhibition on Artsy this summer, hosted by 33 Contemporary and PoetsArtists

Candy & Calamity

The pandemic unlocked new feelings for many people. For Texas-based painter Kukula, she remembers experiencing grief, anguish and pain in a very acute way

DONALD JURNEY: The Poetry of Place

In the first chapter of Donald Jurney’s career, his focus was rooted in the tradition of landscape painting and painting in plein air. In the artist’s upcoming show at George Billis Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut, Jurney will showcase 11 paintings in an entirely new genre involving interiors and figures

Seeing the MIRACULOUS

Artist Jimmy Wright has spent a lifetime of learning, living and looking that he masterfully communicates through still lifes in paint and pastels