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A new book captures Chicago’s financial markets at a moment when there are no offers for trades—any trading company’s horror vacui.
Paintings full of ceremony, mysticism, and sisterhood that remain electric with desire, even when the object of desire is a mystery.
Mid-century magazine clippings find new life in collages that are just the right amount of weird and clever.
Copper deer, bears with cabinet legs, and other absurdities to be found in the future wild.
Portraits of black men that bring attention to the unique humanity of each individual.
In elaborate collages and installations, paper can generate elements that are capable of building new worlds.
Paintings of Yosemite and other locales are full of place and history—and plenty of sex and weather, too.
Eve becomes a woman of many lives, whether trying her first cigarette or weeping in a wedding dress.
A young abstract painter from San Francisco explains why Instagram is the best art critic of all.
The business and madness of modern sports appear, through subtle augmentation, in classics of American art.
Outsider artists draw outsider patrons, some who smell like horses. Not even the art gallery world’s aura of intimidation will keep them away.
The Thirteenth Amendment passed 150 years ago, abolishing slavery. Today, little of the Underground Railroad still remains. A painter hits the road to discover what’s intact.