Under relentless sun, a pair of experienced guides lead explorations on land and sea Woke up, it was a Chatham morning: Robert Glisson's lush landscape It is both accurate and misleading to tell you that Brooke Lanier paints pictures of boats. The Philadelphia artist’s vessels are never freighted with the fish-story romanticism of classic portraits of tall ships. Nor does she give us the cosmic collisions between surf, sky, and sailor’s muscle that we find in the canvases of

Upon returning to Jersey City, the NYC-based 3D art organization goes big Pianos become the teeth: Alberto Bursztyn's "Soar" Jersey City needs more exhibition space for large works. There is only so much matter that can be smushed into SMUSH, or cast into the twin chambers at Deep Space, or snuck into the front room at Curious Matter. We want to encourage our artists to think big. Big thinking requires a capacious setting. With no museum to call ours, we’re often forced to pa

On war, Vladimir Putin, the marketplace, “Madame Butterfly,” and other torments It's a mistake: Alex Garikovich's Russian "Idol," central panel If you’re an artist disgusted by the parlous state of civil society, you’ve got four moves on the table. All four come with perils. You can do as Jersey City creators have done and meet aggression and unpleasantness with a smile and a bouquet of flowers . You’ll be modeling a nobler way of being, but you’ll probably be called a bringe