A fundamental part of Overstreet’s mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.
Lauren Moya Ford
Lauren Moya Ford is a writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in Apollo, Artsy, Atlas Obscura, Flash Art, Frieze, Glasstire, Mousse Magazine, and other publications.
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Henri Matisse Never Really Left Morocco
Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and exploration.
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A Spanish Artist Makes Room for Women’s Stories
Mar Caldas fuses research, photography, video, and installation to recognize and vindicate untold stories of women’s lives and labor.
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Six Art Books to Read This April
The role of dreams in Latin American art, Gertrude Abercrombie’s homegrown surrealism, essays on Celia Paul, new catalogs and monographs, and more.
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An American Artist’s Vignettes of Rural Italian Life
Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.
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A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
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A Mother-Daughter Inheritance Illustrated in Thread and Ink
Galician artist Bea Lema navigates themes of generational trauma and healing, tenderly illustrating the story of a daughter who desperately wants to protect her mother.
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An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers
The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Never-Ending Quest for Beauty
Natalie Dykstra meticulously combs through archival material to fashion a biography of the inimitable, complex arts patron, who ordered her private letters to be destroyed after her death.
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6 Art Books to Cure the Summer Reading Slump
This July’s list is short and sweet with titles on artist lofts in New York City, photos of abortion workers by Carmen Winant, a how-to guide for comic artists, and more.
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A Japanese Painter’s Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaiʻi
After moving to Honolulu in his early 70s, the Gen’ichirō Inokuma drew inspiration from the rainbows, night sky, and other natural phenomena of his new home.
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Why Did Art History Marginalize Janet Sobel?
A new show at the Menil Collection in Houston raises important questions about the ways that we remember and historicize artists.