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The Reflective Head
by W.C. Bamberger. Our newest Critical Read takes on Michael Ayrton's commission for the S. S. Kresge Company.
Feb 22, 2022

April 2021

To His Own Beat
Rebecca Bodenheimer on Duke Ellington's 'Reminiscing in Tempo,' the maestro's symphonic jazz composition.
Apr 15, 2021

October 2020

A Woman's Work
by Noelle Nicholson. What assumptions do we make when we look at a finished painting?
Oct 28, 2020

September 2019

The Artist's Home Undone
by Joelle Jameson. What happens when bad people make good art?
Sep 9, 2019

August 2018

An Open House
by Rob Hardy. Susan Glaspell's 'Inheritors' was ahead of its time.
Aug 30, 2018

January 2017

Anti-Monument
by Catesby Leigh. Is modernism an appropriate aesthetic for public art?
Jan 22, 2017

May 2016

Sudden Flash
by Zachary Whittenburg. Twenty first century ballet arrived thirteen years early.
May 17, 2016
A Time To Be Born
by Joanna Scutts. With 'Midnight's Children' Salman Rushdie found his voice. It would become an international cause.
May 17, 2016
About Face
by Hugh Ryan. Who says when art crosses the line?
May 17, 2016
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