A 25-Year Collaboration with Stone by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Sculptor T Barny’s fascination with the Möbius strip began long before his career in the arts: in a second grade science class. The Möbius strip, a shape with only one side and one continuous edge, eventually became a 50-year obsession and a symbol for continuity and connection…
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Site Review: The Studio Visit
Virtual Studio Visit and Critique By Richard Malinsky, arts editor The Studio Visit (TSV) is a web journal of artist interviews, curated by a dedicated team and contributors focused on contemporary visual artists and their individual processes. TSV is based in Washington, D.C., and recently expanded its presence to Berlin, Germany. Many of the artists featured are…
Free Online Portfolios for Visual Artists
Marketing Your Work by Shawn McNulty Shawn McNulty is a contemporary visual artist from Minneapolis, MN, whose work can be found in public and private collections all over the world. There are several high-traffic websites that allow artists to upload work and maintain a free portfolio. As an artist, it’s in your best interest to…
Book Review: Tula Telfair
Invented Landscapes by Richard Malinsky Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes; Abrams; October 18, 2016; U.S.; 160 pages; $60 Hardcover Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes presents a wide range of Telfair’s major paintings, at once both intimate and grandiose. Its focus is on the power of the landscape and fragility of nature informed by her childhood divided between four continents, and…
Latest Read: Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century
An Exercise in Range by Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century By Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2016. $59.99. The precise temperature regulation of the wax in the honeycomb is the same basic principle applied to the encaustics medium. With the addition of damar resin and color pigments, today’s artists can…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
Link Highlights for Writers and Readers By Dewitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly I’ll post and describe links here to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. 1. AGENT QUERY is a helpful tool both for querying over 2000 agents (“the internet’s largest free…
Exhibition Review: Ten Photographers Envision a Museum
Reimagining a Historical Place by Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum at the Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is an exhibition of a select group of photographers tasked with creating works that address the historic site’s landscape, collections, and story. The place has proved an inspiration to artists for…
Latest Read: Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart
The Medium and its Messenger by Richard Gilbert Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by Beth Kephart. Gotham Books, 254 pp. Here’s three good reasons to read Beth Kephart’s book on writing memoir: her lapidary prose; her vision of memoir as an instrument of inquiry and transcendence; and her superb annotated list of recommended…
Site Review: Poetry Daily
An Evolving Anthology by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Poetry Daily has a simple premise: publish a stellar poem every day, by a different emerging or established poet. And modest beginnings have led to an impressive and constantly evolving “anthology of contemporary poetry.” An enjoyable read for all poets and poetry enthusiasts, Poetry Daily showcases the…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
Link Highlights For Artists and Art Enthusiasts By Donald Kolberg, Contributing Editor The Public Domain Review is “an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.” Focusing on works that have fallen into the public domain, this site alternates between collections, essays, and a…
Site Review: Sarah James
The Possibilities of Poetry by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Sarah James, which began as poet Sarah Leavesley’s promotional website, has evolved into a cache of reviews of indie poetry and interviews with poets, and is still evolving. Leavesley, a poet and playwright with a background in journalism, is the author of four collections of poetry: plenty-fish,…
Site Review: Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour
A Literary Blog with a Twist by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor The bantering banner of Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour is the perfect introduction to the general vibe of this web-blog that combines literary arts, politics, cartoons and more: quirky but crucial, conversational but intellectual. The founders, best-selling and award-winning authors Bill Roorbach (The Girl…