A trip to the wilderness in our backyard — and in our hearts. Nothing but flowers: Kazakova's rhododendrons Artists have been rebelling against the frame for a long time. Painters put borders around their pictures and are immediately filled with an overwhelming urge to shatter them. Never mind that it is the artist herself who imposes the limits. Her images push hard against the lines that confine them anyway. Sometimes the pot boils over and the work spills over the frame an

Impressions of the campaign and the six principal candidates for mayor of Jersey City The image is by Matt Gabel. The opinions are by me. I have always considered it a monstrous act of arrogance to vote for candidates for office because they  agreed with me . Who am I? I’m barely representative of anything. My political positions are exactly what you think they’d be given my background, my occupation, and my place on the globe. We wouldn’t want to be governed by people like m

Prismatic experiments in scene-building and radiant urbanism from two energetic optimists Windows on the world: Allan Gorman in the city Pity poor paper. It really wants to be glass. Ditto for canvas. It isn’t glass, either, and it rankles at its own opacity. Sometimes it feels like the entire reason painters add brilliant pigment to panels is to help stiff surfaces achieve the peaceable qualities of a windowpane. Glass doesn’t fight the light. It acquiesces to its demands fo