From the June/July 2018 Issue
European Roots of the Hudson River School
Two local exhibits shed light on the relationship. The Hudson River School was America’s first home-grown art movement. It is still a source of national pride, both because of the […]
From the April/May 2018 Issue
Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist
The ability to bridge various art movements in single works is a hallmark of her career. In the mid-1960s, Kay WalkingStick was a young wife and mother living in Englewood, […]
From the February/March 2018 Issue
John F. Peto
Island Heights’ trompe l’oeil painter. John Frederick Peto, a 19th-century still life painter, never had a single exhibit in his lifetime. He lived quietly, he made quiet paintings and, when […]
From the October/November 2017 Issue
Mystical Symbolism
Outside the mainstream of spiritual art that was done in the service of conventional religions are works inspired by cults and esoteric philosophies. Art and religion go hand in hand. […]
From the August/September 2017 Issue
New Jersey Shore Impressionists
Jersey shore artists of the early 20th century took their cues from the French impressionists but added their own twists to the genre. Say “New Jersey shore” and images of […]
From the June/July 2017 Issue
Circus Sideshow
The Art of Amazement. By the time you read this, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be no more. The owners announced earlier this year that in May, […]
From the April/May 2017 Issue
Healing Power
A cancer treatment center uses art to aid recovery. The idea that art can have a beneficial effect on health is not new. Authorities on the subject frequently quote Florence […]
From the February/March 2017 Issue
The Paradox of Wildlife Art
Idyllic depictions at odds with an ongoing tragedy. There are really two art worlds nowadays. There is the world of … well, what do you call today’s avant garde? Call […]
From the December 2016/January 2017 Issue
Kea Tawana
A new exhibit honors the woman whose unusual work inspired Newark after race riots three decades ago. Some 30 years ago when I was starting out as a newspaper art […]