Visuals

Banerjee’s photographs ask us to reframe the way we look at our environment, by focusing on one eco-system–the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge–and the indigenous tribes, native animals and geological structures that populate it. His work is being celebrated just as art historians are reframing their own critical lens to reconsider art through an “eco-critical” perspective.

If, as a practical matter, The Curator spends most of her energy enhancing her reputation among the cosmopolitan museum set — well, so much the better! After all, you don’t expect her to stick around this hick town for long, do you?

San Francisco-based artist and teacher Wendy Testu discusses her latest project: a labor of love that galvanizes one community around its social and environmental history.

Artist and wanderlust William Wacker shares images and impressions gathered during his recent tour of Asia, why he needs to catch up on vampire flicks and how, when it comes to art, it’s sometimes best to “shoot from the hip.”

Philadelphia-based painter Joan Curran creates urban still lives inspired by the interaction between humans and nature–a constantly fluctuating relationship that reveals both beauty and excess.

Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee’s Reproduce & Revolt highlights how artists worldwide are responding to the critical issues of our time.

Armed with a camera, Middlebury College professor John Huddleston makes pilgrimages into the American landscape to capture touchstones for shared cultural memory.

“Nature is always pressing, always growing up through the cracks,” he said. Middlebrook’s interest is the instant at which nature and humans collide, whether it be a natural disaster, or a weed growing in a parking lot.

Francesca Gavin contends that the works of today’s street artists are meant to jolt those passing by into an active reality, to turn a passive experience into a conversation, a situation, a happening in which thought is not simply a possible inevitability but a demand of the artist.

In a global society dominated by corporate media conglomerates and sensationalist news coverage, we forget that underprivileged voices are important not just as means to forwarding various agendas, but as ends in themselves.

Artist Jane South discusses how her large-scale, wall-mounted constructions explore the "phenomenological experience of architecture."

Ash LaRose is a Burlington, Vermont-based photographer whose images explore the beauty–and vulnerability–of young women.

The Catalan performance collective La Fura dels Baus has remained one of Spain’s most compelling and relevant artistic exports since its founding in 1979. The story its performances tell, though, has never really been nearly as important as the way in which that story is staged. Perhaps it is for this reason that, more often [...]

“I love history. A lot of how I view art has to deal with how art has been involved with history. I look at a lot of old things.”