Yearly Archives: 2021

Letters
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Dear Artist, In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” English novelist George Orwell identified four…

Letters Houses of Ypres by A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974) “What to paint was a problem for the war artist… The old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone for ever; The impressionist technique I had adopted in painting was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.” (A.Y. Jackson)
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Dear Artist, Researchers at the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University have taken…

Letters Installation view of Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands, 2016–17, at The Bass, Miami Beach, 2019 by Sheila Hicks (b. 1934) Zachary Balber photo.
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Dear Artist, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has invented the LongPen. With custom software and high-speed…

Letters Nudist Family, 2009 Oil on canvas 39 3/10 × 52 1/2 inches by Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
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Dear Artist, Nigel Spivey, in his insightful book How Art Made the World, speculates on…

Letters Big Red, 1959 Sheet metal, wire, paint 74 × 114 inches by Alexander Calder
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Dear Artist, According to productivity gurus, there are two types of motivation; extrinsic and intrinsic,…

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