“My aim is to change the perception of how women-led craft and Appalachian folk
From exquisitely staged photographs to heart-stopping digital collages, NOT REAL
Multimedia artist Ruth Chase sees female identity in complex shades of gray—sometimes
Susan Chambers strays far from the American standard of a manicured lawn and a garden
When Robert Forman first glued his mother’s embroidery thread to a collage back
“I have a magpie-like attraction to bright, colorful, decorated objects, but an
New Years is often a time for list-making, lofty goals, and new haircuts. While we
“A is for Ahlmee, the first of our creeps. B is for Bumbreth who swallows down
“It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is,” says Schmendrick,
“Life is full of pricks” reads the tagline from Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden,
A bouquet of roses, a calamine-colored hair scrunchie, rumpled coral sheets, an apple
“Ping-Pong has become my way to visually describe the experience of being Asian
During breakfast an unfertilized egg escapes, slips, sloshes over the side of a spoon.
“I think creativity is just a way of seeing the world,” says paper artist Rosa
“Violence and love, like obsession and submission, are close bedfellows, and then
With Twitter in free fall and the Meta money-hole looming over Mark Zuckerberg’s
Western Massachusetts-based installation artist and painter Yura Adams has gotten
Ready for holiday shopping? It’s officially gift-giving season, and NOT REAL ART
“The moment I watched a photograph develop in the darkroom, I was hooked,” Leon
“Most of my work is breaded with oatmeal,” says Jonah Jacobs of his amoebic sculptures.
Why stitch when you could stab? That’s the unspoken philosophy behind Katrina Majkut’s
Lined with stunning ceramic tiles, Portugal’s city streets are a sight to remember.
The agony. The ecstasy. The anticipation. The tension climbs, tightens, crescendos,
Stuffed into a stove, suffocated in thick, mauve velvet, collapsed over a strawberry
Isolated in her Fisher-Price-filled studio, Elton John tickling the ivories in the