"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
Henri Matisse
from The New York Times
2004
Sketches From the Front: An Artist's Dispatches, Rendered in Ink and Paint
News, December 13, 2004 • reefered on A1
Slide Show: Selections from 'Baghdad Journal'
"Though contemporary American art often flirts with politics, it is not usually noted for its head-on engagement with war. Yet some of the most compelling commentary on Iraq has come from a New York painter, Steve Mumford, who has been embedded with military units in hot spots like Baquba, Tikrit and Baghdad on and off since April 2003."
The Droll Cartoonist With a Grade – A Obsession
Weekend, November 26, 2004 • cover story
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has a new artistic obsession: pysanky, otherwise known as Ukrainian Easter eggs.
Slide Show: The Art of Pysanky
It's Just Daylight, But It Has Endless Shades
Arts & Leisure, October 24, 2004
A concise history of the use of natural light in museums
A Fake Museum of Shimmying Antiquities
Arts & Leisure, May 16, 2004
Politics, digital imagery, and ten tons of stone from the Israeli artist Michal Rovner
2003
Please Touch the Art
Arts & Leisure, November 2, 2003
The wondrous use of digital books in museum displays
Middlebrow ŕ la Mode: The Dahesh Made Over
Arts & Leisure, September 28, 2003
How the Dahesh Museum, a small New York start-up with a fascinating history, transformed itself into an institution
This Week: Venus on Red Satin: Salvador Dalí's House in Queens
Arts & Leisure, June 22, 2003
The Queens Museum recreates Dali's Dream of Venus, a thoroughly modern performance installation originally shown at the 1939 World's Fair in Queens
Portrait of the Art Teacher as a Melodramatic Twit
Arts & Leisure, April 13, 2003
The highs and lows of the art school sub-plot in HBO's Six Feet Under – from the art world's perspective
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Stories have also appeared in Vogue, Domino, New York, Time Out/New York, and a slew of art magazines, including Beaux Arts, Modern Painters, Art & Antiques, and Artnews.
