About face: eyes everywhere, mouths like broken circles, sacred pork pie hats over melting foreheads. The eyes have it: a detail from "Study" Even those who don’t know very much about visual art are familiar with the Cubist approach to the human body. Pablo Picasso liked to present a person from many angles at once, and compress three-dimensional form into a two-dimensional frame. No matter what step she’s on, that nude descending a staircase comes at us all at once. We know

Familiar figures from the Hudson County art scene try out a new medium: the banner. Let the wind carry me: flags of the north side of the lake. We often refer to flags as standards. In its ideal and most recognizable form, a flag is a flat rectangle on the printed border of an atlas, or in a bumper for an Olympic event, or a social media profile. We know what it stands for: a nation, a tribe, a sexual orientation. It signifies something specific to the standard-bearer, and, a

On Hoboken: its beauty, its fecundity, its low-lying charms. An idyll in acrylic and tassels: Frank Hanavan's "Mumblypeg" Frank Hanavan’s Hoboken is wet. In his streetscapes, surfaces glisten. The sky is rarely glowering, but it does seem full; ready to have something to say, or wrapping up something that it is busy saying. The canopy of foliage that hangs over the streetcorners feels saturated with moisture. Even the shadows on the sidewalk are puddle blue. Businesses have t