May – June 2025 (Volume 39 no 5)
Lux Eterna, Ironbark Gum Study I, 2025, pigment ink, gold leaf, mirror foil on paper.
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Editorial Vol 39 no 5
by Nancy Nesvet The Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington, DC and the associated Textile Museum
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Adela Janska: The look of a woman defines her
Adéla Janskà: The look of a woman defines her Charles Gaucher interviews Adela Janska
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Arman Molavi at the MIA
Arman Molavi at the Milan Image Art (MIA) Fair by Isabella Chiardini I had been
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Magic Occurs
Magic Occurs by Jeanne Stanek Jeanne Stanek interviewed Australian-born interdisciplinary artist, Lux Eterna via internet
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Jack Witten: The Messenger
Jack Whitten: The Messenger Pebbles on the Street Jack Whitten. Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant. 2014. Acrylic
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Inter-Generational Voices: The Post Traumatic Growth Movement
By Rina Oh “My name is Thirsty.” Pastel on sandpaper. 27.5” x 19.75” 2022. Image Credit:
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Elizabeth Catlett: Black Feminist and Revolutionary Artist
by Lanita Brooks-Colbert In 1988, the Guerilla Girls Art Collective posed a powerful question, “Do
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Art After the United States
Art After the United States by Jorge Benitez, 2025 The myth of indispensability is difficult
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Review of Weslien’s “I Forgot to Remember”
by Christopher Crosman KATARINA WESLIEN: “I Forgot to Remember” View from entrance to the installation
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Is the artist political?
By Charles Gaucher The question of whether the artist is political is far from obvious.
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The Case for Impurity
by Jorge Miguel Benitez Nature abhors inbreeding. Ideology thrives on it. The taboo against incest
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Art Entrenched in Currency and Power
By Lanita Brooks Colbert Art profoundly influences currency, political and economic power, shaping our perception
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Editorial
by Nancy Nesvet Amidst the chaos and fighting taking place all over the world, I
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Circle of Clarity
by Katarina Weslien Acknowledgements: “Stuck” by Katarina Weslien first appeared in the Winter issue of
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The 8th Day: An Invitation to Gather
by Lux Eterna Acknowledgment: The 8th Day is a work and ongoing collaboration that primarily acknowledges
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Mexican Muralists, Abstract Expressionists, Vincent Melzac, and the CIA (oh my!)
Adam Void When asked if I would write something about the Mexican Muralist movement, I
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Volume 39 No 3 Jan – Feb 2025
ARTICLES YOU’RE EITHER WITH ME OR AGAINST ME Jorge BenitezTHE NAKED TRUTH Daniel BenshanaHENRY CRUIKSHANK’S
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The Intimacy of Politics
Elizabeth Ashe There are several, genre-crossing phrases in the art world that are truly definable.
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Wesselmann’s Easy Catch
Elga Wimmer Designed by Frank Gehry, the Paris based Louis Vuitton Foundation with its soaring
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Art in Migration
Richard Vine Human migration is ultimately political. This is obvious in cases of forced relocation,
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The Korean Peninsula In Four Parts
Rina Oh Pachinko, an Apple Plus original limited series based on the best-selling novel by
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Henry Cruikshank’s Moment
In early nineteenth-century Britain, political cartooning was a major form of protest art, so much
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The Naked Truth
Daniel Benshana Cartoons – briefly described as caricatures of a person to make a political
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The Holy Prison
Isabella Chiadini It is difficult to realize that you are in front of a prison
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‘You’re Either with Me or Against Me’:The Lethal Morality Of Political Art
Jorge M. Benitez What is political art? More importantly, what does it achieve? Political art
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An artist with Purpose
Nancy Nesvet “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
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Speakeasy: With Darkness Came Stars’ a memoir
Each issue, the Art Lantern invites a well-known, or not so well-known, art world
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Editorial
Nancy Nesvet At a chaotic time in our shared world, like 1918 when Tristan Tzara
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Volume 39 No 2 Nov – Dec 2024
ARTICLES PARIS AND THE AESTHETICS OF COMPLEXITY Jorge Benitez MINIMAL EFFECTIVENESS IN PARIS David Goldenberg
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Minimal Effectiveness in Paris
David Goldenberg During the opening of Sharjah Biennale 2023, l met a selector of one
March-April 2025 (Vol. 39, No. 4)
Art Entrenched in Currency and Power
Lanita Brooks Colbert
Mexican Muralists, Abstract Expressionists, Vincent Melzac and the CIA (oh my!)
Adam Void
Jan – Feb 2025 (Vol. 39, No. 3)
Nancy Nesvet
Daniel Benshana
Richard Vine
Elga Wimmer
‘You’re Either with Me or Against Me’:The Lethal Morality Of Political Art
Jorge Benitez
Nancy Nesvet
Elizabeth Ashe
Speakeasy: With Darkness Came Stars’ a memoir
Mary Fletcher
The Korean Peninsula In Four Parts
Rina Oh
Isabella Chiadini
Nov – December 2024 (Vol. 39, No. 2)
Daniel Benshana
Minimal Effectiveness in Paris
David Goldenberg
Arte Povera: Art is its Own Family
Nancy Nesvet
Mary Fletcher
Paris and the Aesthetics of Complexity
Jorge Benitez
African Diaspora and Paris: Black Influence in 19th Century Modernism
Lanita Brooks-Colbert
From Revolution to Evolution : Paris 1874
Maryanne Pollock
Maria Balshaw, Director of the Tate
Sophie Kazan professor at Falmouth Art School
Rob Couteau author
Elizabeth Ashe, sculptor
Taking a Pause to Breathe, to Be Still
Lorenzo Cardim
Annie Markovich
Sept-October 2024 (Vol. 39, No. 1)
Editorial – Dragons: The Legend Continues
Daniel Benshana
Compromise and Acceptance: The Game of Thrones and House of Dragons
Lanita K. Brooks-Colbert
Iconography of Dragons – Hobbits, Disney and More
David Goldenberg
“Healing the Earth” in the Wake of Joseph Beuys
Dr. Uranchimeg Tsultemin
Speakeasy: St. George and the Dragon
Daniel Benshana
Dragons in the Korean Royal Court
Rina Oh
Siegried Slays The Dragon Fafner
Jeanne Stanek
Elizabeth Ashe
July-August 2024 (Vol. 38, No. 6)
Nancy Nesvet
Oscar Nitzchke, Avant-garde Architect of the Modernity 1900 – 1991
Lea Lee
Annie Markovich
Cross Cultural Histories of the Black Experience, 1920-1940
Lanita K. Brooks Colbert
Larry Rivers: Bad Boy of the Art World
Rina Oh Amen
Mary Fletcher
May-June 2024 (Vol. 38, No. 5)
March-April 2024 (Vol. 38, No. 4)
PERU
An American in Lima: A Meditation on a Divided Hemisphere Jorge Miguel Benitez
LONDON
Entangled Pasts 1768 – Now David Goldenberg
ITALY
El Greco: His Own Peculiar Style Liviana Martin
Speakeasy Miklos Legrady
AFRICA
Front Seat to a Revolution Valerie Kabov
LONDON
When Forms come Alive Nancy Nesvet
BOOK REVIEW:
Looking at Picasso Mary Fletcher
Jan-Feb 2024 (Vol. 38, No. 3)
The Rossettis Delaware Art Museum
Women in Revolt: Art & Activism in the UK 1974-1990 Nancy Nesvet
BOOK REVIEW:
The Presence of Death Frances Oliver
Where Has All The Protest Music Gone? Jorge M Benitez
A Painter Looks at Philip Guston Now Don Kimes
NEW YORK
Its Pablo-matic According to Hannah Gadsby Elizabeth Ashe
Speakeasy Daniel Benshana
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Nancy Nesvet
The Mother and the Weaver Nancy Nesvet
The Native Camera Liviana Martin
Elizabeth Ashe
Nov-Dec 2023 (Vol. 38, No. 2)
LONDON
Frieze Week And Frieze Art Fair, David Goldenberg
MILAN
Robert Doisneau , Graziella Colombo
BOOK REVIEW:
Sept-Oct 2023 (Vol. 37, No. 8)
Speakeasy – The inexorable rise of the art market, Scott Reyburn
Learning From The Masters. Bradley Stevens
For Bradley Stevens, copying the masters at museums is an ongoing education.
Cuba as Realised in Art, Lanita K. Brooks Colbert
Free art education, murals everywhere, and a national museum: Lanita K Brooks Colbert reviews Cuba’s art scene while on a cultural mission.
The Only Thing that’s the End of the World is the End of the
World Elizabeth Ashe
Elizabeth Ashe sees The Only Thing that’s the End of the World is The End of the World” at the Payne Gallery at Moravian University, an installation challenging viewer’s perception of space and place.
Rodney and the Imagination Nancy Nesvet
Artist Rodney Zelenka draws on migrants’ travels, surrealistically using birds and spiders to see something new.
Back to the Future (Art), Stephen Westfall
Stephens Westfall on what happens when the artist leaves the classroom for the unknown.
The Geopolitics of Biennials: Simina Neagu Interviews David Goldenberg
David Goldenberg speaks about art, geopolitics and his new take on the Biennale in an interview with Simina Neagu.
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh (Book Review) , Frances Oliver
Why have critics failed to engage with our most important current issues: climate change and exhaustion of the earth? Francis Oliver reviews “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh.
The Once and Future DIY Network Mark Bloch
Mark Bloch reviews the decades old practice of making mail art, and his own mail art work.
Here’s looking at You, Casablanca Mary Fletcher
Mary Fletcher reviews the Casablanca school exhibition at the Tate Cornwall, casting new light on a little know but important phenomenon in the 1960’s art world.
Ex Statu Pupillari: Against Guardians Sam Vangheluwe
Sam Vangheluwe writes of the value of getting lost: in a place, a work of art, or anywhere, and the joys of discovering for ourselves what we see and where we go.