One night in 1982, the painter Jane Dickson had a stirring encounter with time, place and genius. The era was one of seismic shifts set off by a hungry new generation of New York art masters. The ...

In the right hands, clay doesn't just take form, it begins to think. The quiet dialogue between maker and material can yield objects so arresting they seem to hold both mystery and breath. One such ...

Jane Alexander, “Custodian” (2005), fiberglass, oil paint, wood, steel stand (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) South African artist Jane Alexander has long worked with blurring the ...

Call it the ‘‘rediscovery industrial complex”: Art advisers and dealers are turning to the past to discover tomorrow’s blue-chip stars. Four women brought Marcia Marcus’s work to a contemporary ...

American painter Jane Peterson (1876-1965) is not particularly easy to classify both in terms of style and themes. Some of her works resemble those of Maurice Prendergast in their dappled, ...