Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young

By Ann McCoy

OCT 2022 | ArtSeen

The exhibition title, Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, refers to Beardsley’s (1872–1898) birth 150 years ago, and the freshness of his work today. He was a consumptive who died at the tragically early age of twenty-five, and here we see the scope of his early genius.

Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By Wyatt Sarafin

NOV 2022 | Art Books

A comics memoir, workplace drama, and, most fundamentally, a migration and generation story that’s specific to the Canadian provinces. Dilating and expanding moments of time, it subtly encompasses the quiet and unassuming tragedies that mark our present moment.

Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden

By Robert C. Morgan

FEB 2022 | ArtSeen

The recent exhibition, Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, follows in the spirit of this change, although it is drawn from the brilliant depositories of the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden. These collections are largely focused on drawings produced during the Northern Renaissance and Baroque period, although they also include more recent works.

A Few Paper Clips and A Couple Million Years

By David Brooks

SEPT 2022 | Critics Page

Feeding on caterpillars, beetles, spiders, and spider eggs, the blackpoll warbler will double its body weight to fly 20,000 kilometers from its summer habitat of the Canadian boreal forests nonstop overwater to winter in the Amazon. Challenging our imaginations, this twelve-grams-of-feathers has the longest overwater flight known of any songbird.