Art

Urban New Agers Have Taken Over the Art of Dowsing

Once just a way to find water, this rural practice is now used to test both food and dinner partners can you believe it?

Jack Hope

January 1996

Itchiku Kubota's Fascination With an Ancient Textile Art

The Japanese master has devoted his life to reviving a long-lost technique of fabric design and to creating handcrafted kimonos of lasting beauty

Diane M. Bolz

December 1995

Time Stands Still in the Harmonious World of Vermeer

It's a must-see show at the National Gallery of Art; not since 1696 have so many of his paintings been brought together in one place

Helen Dudar

November 1995

Winslow Homer, the Quintessential American Artist

He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end

Ken Chowder

October 1995

The Magical Motion of Michael Moschen

Steve Kemper

August 1995

The Really Big Art of Claes Oldenburg

By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity

Beth Py-Lieberman

August 1995

A Vibrant New Heart For the Art in San Francisco

A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman's Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city's new home for the arts

Chiori Santiago

July 1995

All Right, Troops Fan Out and Find Every Last Artwork

With the aid of volunteers throughout the country, Save Outdoor Sculpture! is helping us to rediscover our monumental heritage

Doug Stewart

April 1995

"The Hermitage"

Its spectacular holdings in art have long been celebrated; but now, as it reaches out to the world, the museum reveals a closely held secret

Stanley Meisler

March 1995

Giving New Life to Haida Art and the Culture It Expresses

Robert Davidson and Bill Reid rediscovered their past with the help of anthropologists, old books, tribal elders and a common ancestor

William Severini Kowinski

January 1995