Tools of the Trade

Painter Sharon Sprung discusses the tools she uses to make art: a third-generation easel with a special pedigree, a transformed lithographers table, and an antique screen of oak panels.
Where and how we see art affects the quality of our experience. When we see art in a church that has been prayed in for centuries, something magical occurs, as if the art is spiritually alive.
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008, opening at the San Diego Museum of Art on July 11, will include Frederick Brosen’s watercolor Astroland.
Nearly 4,000 men and women veterans of the US military have studied or taught at the Art Students League of New York. On June 19, On the Front Lines opens to explore work by those veterans who studied at the league after the Second World War through the present day.
On now through June 15, 2015 is the Art Student League’s annual Red Dot Exhibition, a collection of the season’s “red dot” (best of show) works from over eighty classes.