The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA
Four men came to our house because they were interested in architecture. They knew someone who knew our landlord, which is how they got…
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With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts
The Heritage Foundation and conservative groups like it have been trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts for decades. Last month, the Trump…
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Living Fragments: On Berlin’s Winter of Broken Pieces
I, for one, want to be broken into pieces. The way sappy music breaks its lovers. We bright-lit gallery people are more reserved. But…
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Episode 16: “What Makes Great Art?” with Margaux Williamson
As we continue to circle the question “what makes great art?”, Sky Goodden spoke with Margaux Williamson, a slow painter who gives the greatest primacy…
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Lives of the Artists: Remembering Vilmos
I first met Vilmos in January of 1970, in the depths of an Ontario winter, at the London Psychiatric Hospital. I was twenty-two and…
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Detective Stories about Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl
Most of us have never known an art world without Peter Schjeldahl in it. We count on him being part of New York like…
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An Arch and a Gulf: When Public Art Falls Short of Social Reality
Today, iconic public artworks, both permanent and temporary, are defining visual elements of many urban landscapes – from the LOVE sculpture (1976) in Philadelphia…
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“There is a Tongue for This”: Aurora as Art Writing
The sky is called the firmament because it supposedly stays still. Abruptly, we saw this etymology break down: a thin vaporous green trail, like…
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Open Secrets: Gossip and the Reframing of a Canadian Painting Dynasty
The October 12, 2019, edition of CBC Radio’s “Weekend AM Newfoundland with Heather Barrett” begins with a Thanksgiving-themed story about Newfoundland’s love of the…
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Land and Landlessness: A Conversation with Larry Towell
Despite living all his life in peaceful rural Ontario, celebrated photojournalist Larry Towell’s work is characterized by struggle, from his projects in Gaza and…
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