Archives for November 2025

Philemona Williamson’s slightly crowded, sometimes claustrophobic paintings depict Black children and adolescents in ambiguous social situations. None of them smile; all are portrayed in various states of distress.

Pegan Brooke paints scenic — one might say dangerously scenic — locations where the land meets the water ranging from Bolinas Lagoon in Marin County, to the Aven River at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in northwestern France, a favored location of nineteenth-century landscape painters.

During its short efflorescence from 1954 to 1957, the Six Gallery was many things, most famously the place where Allen Ginsberg initially read his famous poem titled “Howl” on October 7, 1955.

Ruby C. Tut’s exhibition of new work builds on the ornate legacy of Indian miniature painting in order to conceive expansive psychological landscapes that envision ecological balance and well-being.

Pan Hsinhua and David Frazer make a compelling case for art’s ability both to reflect contemporary life and aesthetically transform it, wresting meaning and beauty from the chaotic jumble of social media unreality.

Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot enjoyed a complex relationship marked by mutual flirtation that eventually smoldered into sublimated desire after Morisot’s marriage to his brother Eugène. She chose the right brother.

In California, where rugged mountains and coastlines provided both inspiration and solitude, the observation of natural phenomena further infused the forms — and in some cases the formlessness — of Zen-derived art.

Edward Burtynsky’s current exhibition, “Transformation,” opens with “Dry Tailings #1, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo,” an aerial view of an open-pit cobalt and copper mine near the central African city that is the site of more than half of global cobalt reserves.