" I really want to try to reproduce this image of a distant memory that we try to anchor in our minds. For the moment, I am at the raw expression of my own memory, but I hope to soon realize larger projects."
There is much to be said—and much being said—about the conditions and the state of nature at this moment in history, where multiple species face extinction, lush sceneries turn into wastelands, and ice melts with unforeseen consequences.
In the early eighties, as a Bucks County, PA, high-school student with an artistic bent, I visited the quirky old Barnes mansion in Lower Merion during a blizzard.
Music Inspiration: Beethoven’s Compositions in Modern Art, currently on view at Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, attempts to bridge the gap between auditory and visual experience by inviting artists to translate Beethoven’s compositions into contemporary artworks.
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always is on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus, through December 21, 2025.
Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio at the New York Public Library is a focused show presenting selections of a recent gift from the Dedalus Foundation.
Franz Erhard Walther emerged as an artist amid the socio-political foment of the sixties, a decade when time’s arrow seemed most errant, most in question.