Sep./Oct. 2026 DC Art Rules!
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing, HAL?
By Richard Humann
“My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you…
The Digital Muse: Artificial Intelligence and the New Humanities
By Lanita Brooks-Colbrt
MIT postdoctoral researcher Ziv Epstein, SM ’19, PhD’23, addresses issues arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence in art…
Holding Space
By Jorge M. Benitez
Modernism and its aftermath eclipsed the old debate between the followers of Rubens and those of Poussin. Gerald McEachern…
Review, Biennale de Arte, Venezia 2026
By Nancy Nesvet
Humanity was front and center, in the crowds, protests, pavilions and collateral and unofficial…
From the Publisher
Nancy Nesvet
Graffiti, must be exhibited where the most people can best view it. That is why it was originally…
Can Art Shake Power? Creative Confrontation and the Role of Protest Art
By Lanita Brooks-Colbert
Across the ages, art has been a rallying cry for protest, surfacing wherever people have yearned for change. Some works have sparked new freedoms, while others…
Art for the Environment
By Pāg Black
Four of my assemblage works were installed at the Sagamore Hotel for Miami Art Week. While I was hosting a supporter of my foundation and his son, I observed a…
A Prayer Beneath the Gold
By Ekaterina Sky
For much of my life as an artist, my work has centered on animals, particularly endangered species and the fragile ecosystems…
Shine On You Crazy Diamonds
By Richard Humann
I was 16-years-old the first time I dropped acid. It was a lime-green and lemon-yellow capsule about the size…
From Street to Catalogue: the Institutional Embrace of Graffiti
By Jillian Goss-Holmes
Each March and October, London’s leading auction houses host their flagship modern and contemporary…
A Broken Contract
By Jorge M. Benitez
Every society must eventually confront its mythology. If it avoids the mirror, the glass will shatter, and the shards…
Return to Sender: Cocteau and Stoppard Respond to Nietzsche
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche’s theory of the “eternal return” has often proved compelling to artists. Two twentieth-century giants…
From the Publisher
Nancy Nesvet
Just back from the Miami Art Fairs, there was some same as and some unexpected, some very commercial…
About This Issue
Nancy Nesvet
Again, our writers have hit a home run, touching down on topics important to creatives and their supporters everywhere…
Bone Music Resurrection
By Richard Humann
I first stumbled upon the history of bone music while researching another art project…
Gerhard Richter: Question Everything
By Nancy Nesvet
Gerhard Richter, presently the world’s highest selling living contemporary artist, was born in 1932 Dresden, Germany…
Still Life, after Richter (Tante Marianne)
By LQ McDonald
A poem reacting to the retrospective of Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris…
Paris in Autumn Glow
By Elga Wimmer
Paris looked decidedly festive in autumn, as Art Basel Paris got underway…
Desire Over Speculation: Rethinking How Art Is Bought Now
By Jillian Goss-Holmes
How younger collectors, shifting wealth, and changing values are reshaping the art market…
Art • Innovation • The Built World
By John Jones
Why Creative Collaboration Should Begin Before the First Brick Is Laid…