On Art
Commentary on visual art
Tom Gick Portrait of the artist’s grandmother
At the start of the last century, plenty of artists claimed to be mystics....
From Meg Hitchcock’s Illuminations
(clockwise from left) Emerge from Invisibility and Become Visible; Of His Vast Almighty Head; The Hundreds and Thousands of My Forms; The Ferryman; The Nine Eyes Widely Opened
Delmar VanderZee’s Prairie Wisdom
Prairie Wisdom, by artist and biologist Delmar VanderZee, is a 15-tile sculpture of impressions of plants from the tallgrass prairie that used to range across the north-central ...
José Ignacio Fletes Cruz’s The Second Chance: The Ark of Noah
The flood story makes modern readers squirm....
Images from Michael Petry’s Gifts of Apollo (top) and At the Foot of the Gods (bottom)
What happens to old gods? As fantasy writers from Neil Gaiman to George R. R....
Peter Howson’s Imposter
Peter Howson has been described as a modern-day Hieronymus Bosch for his detailed and disquieting depictions of the Gospel Passion narratives, like this graphite drawing on gessoed wood of the mock...