WORKING DRAWINGS

Watch the great Dean Cornwell collect the information he will need for a painting. Cornwell has drawn thousands of hands in thousands of pic...

A HAND, AN EYE AND A PIECE OF CHARCOAL

Last week we enjoyed the work of glitzy art superstar Jeff Koons, who employs a factory of artists to create his supersized art. Koons is fa...

THREE THINGS I LIKE ABOUT JEFF KOONS

Has every bad thing that can possibly be said about the art of Jeff Koons been said already? It is worth revisiting this question at regular...

GIRLS GATHERING FLOWERS

The surest way to breach the dividing line between gods and mortals is with girls gathering flowers by a stream. Vassar college girls practi...

TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL (part three)

The brilliant young Mathematician Evariste Galois was killed in a duel when he was only 20. His biographer, E.T. Bell, described the last n...

JOHN CUNEO: AIMING FOR AN INVISIBLE TARGET

Compare Saul Steinberg's observation on the obstacles to creation... ...with John Cuneo's treatment of the same theme: Cuneo's h...

THRUST

In my opinion, illustration art has a brand of potency unrivalled by any other school or genre in the history of art. Peak Frazetta Hale N.C...