Essays

There is an enduring myth about Artists: they have access to something that most of us do not—a Muse which provides inspiration for some creative action. As this myth goes,…

Using the analogy of college basketball, Denver is at most a mid-major player in the Art World. It is more significant perhaps than a Division II-equivalent of, say, a Sacramento…

The ‘Art World’ consists of ‘Artists’, those who generate ‘Art’, and everyone else who interacts, directly or indirectly, with the artists and their art for the purposes of showing, critiquing,…

In our family, no Christmas season went by—at least when our four children were still children—without the obligatory group portrait of them in the holiday outfits their mom had created…

The assignment is: Answer the question: What category would I place the work of Ansel Adams? A simple task, is it not? The obvious answer is ‘Aesthetically Evaluative’. This the…