Why Impasto Never Really Went Away
The thick, tactile paint of the post-impressionists is having a quiet moment — and a new generation is finding freedom in the visible brushstroke.
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The Best Pigments You're Not Using (But Should Be)
A working painter's guide to overlooked colors — from caput mortuum to Maya blue — and what they bring to a palette that cadmiums cannot.
The Muralists Rewriting the Language of the City Wall
Street art grew up. The new muralists aren't tagging — they're commissioning, and the walls they paint reshape how neighborhoods see themselves.
Against Beauty: A Case for Difficulty in Contemporary Painting
Not everything is meant to soothe. An argument for the paintings that resist, that refuse to be hung above the couch, and why that refusal matters now.
The Vessel and the Void: Pottery's Quiet Philosophical Turn
A new wave of ceramicists is asking what a pot is for when it isn't for holding anything. The answers are stranger — and more beautiful — than you'd expect.