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In this article, the author who is photographer talks about significance of dark room in photography. He informs about processing papers at the photograph conservation darkroom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and working with a box of Kodak Kodabromide E3 photographic papers; and the art work "Celestographs" by Johan August Strindberg.

The article focuses on works by artists' collective Paper Radio which included members Ben Jones and Christopher Forgues. Topics discussed include inclusion of fantasy adventures and psychedelic space operas in works by the collective; their television cartoon series "Stone Quackers" for the FXX network television channel; experiments of Forgues with hand-made radios and use of pencil for printing of their cartoons.

The article reviews the exhibition "Keyhole" at Cheim and Read, art gallery in New York City, featuring large-scale paintings and works of paper by artist Tal R.

The article reviews the exhibition "Martín Ramírez," by the artist Martin Ramirez at the Milwaukee Art Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 6, 2007-January 6, 2008.

The article reports on artist Unica Zürn. Zürn was born in 1916 in Grünewald, Berlin, Germany and is most known as being associated with Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer. She was both an author and an artist and featured pain and suffering in her work. She committed suicide in 1970 at the age of 54.

The article presents a conversation between Laylah Ali and William S. Smith on figures of colors. Topics include paintings on paper from Ali's iconic "Greenheads" series appear everywhere in New York and Ali creates figures that she calls a universal quality; and Ali's paintings convey visual information to suggest perplexing, uncanny scenarios that hint at looming violence or offer glimpses of community rituals.

The article discusses the life, career, and artworks of American sculptor Arlene Shechet. Topics explored include her 2024 sculpture exhibition "Girl Group" at the Storm King Art Center in New York, brief details about her family, education, and initial involvement in the arts, and the recognition earned by the distinct features and themes of her sculptures.

The article discusses the life, career, and artworks of Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander. Topics explored include the controversy involving her 2023 bronze sculpture "Witness" that has been installed at the University of Houston in Texas, brief details about her family, education, and past work with miniaturist Bashir Ahmed, and her 2024 art exhibition "Collective Behavior," being presented in Venice, Italy.

The author discusses her tactile drawing process as a blind artist and her relationship with her guide dog. She thinks about human-dog relationships as depicted in her drawings "Peanut Butter Licking" and "My Wrapping Arms Around Your Furry Neck, in a Lush Landscape, You Dip Your Nose Down to Smell My Face." She describes how she envisions a scene and tells about her use of the adaptable seeing device called Brainport when creating drawings.

The article explores the work of the artist Etel Adnan. Particular focus is given to her artist's books, where her writings and paintings merge. Other topics discussed include her contribution to the Istanbul Biennale, an artist book titled "Family Memoirs and the End of the Ottoman Empire," her birth in Beirut in 1925, and how she began painting in the 1960s, although her work was not broadly recognized in visual art circles until 2012.

The article comments on two New York exhibitions that featured work of artist Nancy Spero. Three gouache-and-ink-on-paper works from Spero's original "War" series appeared in "Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War" at the Drawing Center. Spero's "Cri du Coeur," a 160-feet-long printed-paper frieze was seen at Galerie Lelong.

Comments on artist Roland Flexner's ink drawings on exhibited in autumn 2002 at the Caren Golden Fine Art in New York City. Subjects of Flexner's art work; Flexner's use of bubbles in his drawings; Variety of imagery.

This article presents a lively retrospective of New Orleans, Louisiana artist-preacher Sister Gertrude Morgan who demonstrates her burning engagement with the language and imagery of Christian redemption. The medieval monks pictured the Four Horsemen and the Woman Clothed in the Sun and the Seven-Headed Beast in bright colors against airless, vivid, striated grounds. Morgan did the same, if more loosely, in her renditions of the sacred scenes--in acrylic and crayon on paper and cardboard, and sometimes on homely objects like paper plates, toilet-paper rolls, adhoc megaphones and handmade fans.

The article recounts the life and works of artist Alice Shaddle. It introduces the exhibit "Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles" at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois which aims to situate Shaddle on the continuum of Chicago modernism. It highlights Shaddle's artworks including the sculptures "Hollywood Image" and "Birthday Cake" and offers a look into her relationship with feminism.

The article discusses the inventors of Cubism, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, replaced perspective with a new kind of pictorial space: instead of receding into the distance, their paintings seemed to advance toward the viewer in a series of overlapping planes.

An essay is presented on a curtain that was made by artist Guillermo Kuitca for the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in Texas. Kuitca's conception of the curtain is discussed and the process of making the paintings that comprise the curtain. Kuitca's training and his work with director Carlos Ianni got him interested in the theater.

The article reviews an exhibition titled "Georges Seurat: The Drawings," featuring the work of artist Georges Seurat at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

In this article eight artists including Keltie Ferris, Louis Fratino and Sam McKinniss reflect upon the work of American artist Jasper Johns. They discuss his series of self-portraits, "The Seasons," his influences and his techniques, including the painting surfaces he created. These reflections are offered in response to the Jasper Johns retrospective exhibition happening at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in late September 2021, titled "Mind/Mirror."

The article discusses the woks of Yooyun Yang, a Korean painter imbues everyday scenes with a tender, haunting ambience.

An image of the sculpture "Insomnia," by Jeanne Silverthorne is presented.

An interview is presented with artist Mark Van Yetter. When asked how he initially became interested in art, he talks about drawing as a child and a community art center. When asked about motifs in his paintings such as prosceniums, he discusses doodles and psychedelic images. Other topics include art exhibitions, using oil paint, and cultural influence.