Michael Bise

The artist-critic can become a reviled creature to himself and the artists he writes about.

When the worst of the Trump right finally join the worst of the Bernie Sanders left, I'll be in a bunker having a sardonic conversation over a glass of wine and a fancy sandwich with Bill Willis and Sarah Fisher.

"Our jobs as artists are to paint what we come in touch with and help other people diagnose the ills of society. Once we diagnose them we can cure them."

Whatever you may say about the work itself, Otero is hustling the art game for all it’s worth.

Henry has developed a personal approach to image making that is grounded in the history of landscape painting, and is concerned with contemporary questions about painting’s possibilities as a form of communication.

It’s a relief to know that artists like Vasquez are carving out time to contemplate a world of beings that are too often invisible and insignificant in our daily political decisions.

Like all ghouls, the fascist figure doesn’t just appear; we summon him.

Here I sit, with the responsibility of finding meaning in Degas one day before a presidential election. This is a tall order, but I’m Darwinian about art.

Helguera’s mission is not to trigger intellectual or emotional insight through visual intrigue, but to deliver standardized social messages.

The show functions as an outline of Picasso’s vision of the past and his insight into the future of art and human life.

Pluecker writes that a new development in the Houston neighborhood is an “utter abandonment of every political and social goal to which the de Menils dedicated their lives.”

The visual effects of Rosmarin's paintings seem to be to be almost a byproduct of her need to create an orderly universe.

Rigorous, personalized photography like Blakemore’s could not be more important than it is today.

The best works of art put up strong resistance to easy interpretation. They encourage the physical encounter.

In order to accept any of the projects and proposals in McFadden's presentation you must first accept the premise that artists deserve to make a living making art. They don't.

Liberals do Trump a disservice when they act like he’s a buffoon. He’s a kind of artist—a dystopian visionary.

Buying and selling art with people you don’t know over an Instagram post only promotes the exchange of questionable art between questionable people with questionable motives.

I sometimes want to like this stuff, but the line between poetic rhetoric and bullshit is just too fuzzy.

There’s no one story of any empire and there’s no one story of America. I’ve been telling my family’s story in my work for nearly 20 years now. I’ve only recently been thinking about what my identity as an American artist is.

In his act of creating a second authentic artistic identity Guston has shown me, and many generations of artists, that losing faith in an idea of yourself as an artist doesn’t have to be the end. You can make art after disillusionment.