MINOR AT HEART
Among them too were women
Unlike their male contemporaries, the women of The New York School don't have anything even remotely resembling a starring role in helping define the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Karl Stevens, indoorsman
Painter and comics artist Karl Stevens asks a lot of questions about his life—past and present—in his new book The Winner.
David Sandlin has been awake forever
Artist David Sandlin's carnivalesque comics mingle with politically charged paintings in 2018 book Sleep of History.
Profit before all life
Artist Sue Coe began visiting slaughterhouses in the 1980s, documenting in sketchbooks the systemic horrors that she witnessed at those facilities.
I just count the wings
Prolific illustrator Charley Harper brought great flair to commercial art in America's postwar years.
All the fountains of the great deep
There’s a place to come up for air at the New Museum’s riveting and slightly exhausting Raymond Pettibon exhibit.
ABOUT
Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Get in touch.