I was on my way to the art fair when something strange happened.
Comics
That Time When I Tried to Move to Israel
A Rabbi said there’s land in the settlements with my name on it.
A Conflicted Cartoonist Ponders Roy Lichtenstein
A new documentary asks whether the Pop Art icon appropriated the work of comic artists. If so, who’s truly to blame?
The Life and Times of Patrociño Barela
A new exhibition at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico honors the underrecognized legacy of the self-taught wood carver.
This Is How Succession Should End
Brace yourself for the rise of the Pee Balloon Army.
Mike Leigh’s BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh’s films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny.
AI, WTF Do You Know About Pain?
Something in this era of AI-generated art feels debased, devalued. That something is me, the artist.
My Comics Collaboration With DALL-E
I wondered: Could the AI image generator and I develop a shared, unique “voice” in our creative output?
When Tuna Met Snoopy
Something strange happened when I watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with my cat Tuna.
The History of American Landscape Painting Is Not Pretty
The country’s most famous landscape painters pushed the idea of Manifest Destiny. Is there a better way to inspire people with landscape painting today?
Thoughts on Clement Greenberg From a Cult Survivor
At the height of his influence as an art critic, Greenberg was in “Sullivanian” psychotherapy, the same cult I was later exposed to as a child.
Documenta 15 in the Shadow of the Russia-Ukraine War
“What does it mean to arrive from a country with a fascist regime?” asks Russian dissident artist Victoria Lomasko.