Or, The Happening on Pill Hill. There's the old theater maxim about breaking through the fourth wall to pierce the boundary between performer and audience. The Degenerate Art Ensemble's roving, multi-venue piece "Red Shoes" pulls a host of tricks out of the bag, just about everything except a whi... [More]

Up until quite recently, one did not admit to liking Norman Rockwell in polite company, at least so far as the art world was concerned.  Rockwell’s work-for-hire magazine covers, posters, and illustrations so unashamedly embraced everything that contemporary art had rejected – s... [More]

glass art is annoyingly beautifulthe transparency & translucence of this color-infused glassmakes glass-as-art essentially an esthetics of light but infusing an object with light heightens its fetishistic attractionpackages it with the pseudo-spirituality of a high-end luxury itema decorative... [More]

Norman Rockwell's painting "Discovery", currently on display at the Tacoma Art Museum, depicts a pajama-clad young boy finding a Santa Claus suit and false beard in Dad's bureau drawer, incriminating evidence of the old man's fakery. The picture appeared on the cover of the December 29, 1956 Satur... [More]

Artist Pablo Picasso's critical success from his youth in Barcelona and arching through successive years leading up to World War II and after is noted by how he had fallen in an out of favor with art critics and reviewers. Matthew Kangas reflects on the recent Picasso exhibition and retrospective "P... [More]