by Drew Martin A couple of nights ago I watched Autism: The Musical (2007) directed by Tricia Regan. The documentary follows Elaine Hall, ...

by Drew Martin I recently watched Philippe Séclier's documentary An American Journey in Robert Frank's Footsteps (2009). What ...

by Drew Martin Although most artists are "visual" artists, art is not made with eyes. Most artists are guided with their eyes but...

by Drew Martin A couple of weeks ago I took a midday train home. The typical evening rush-hour professionals were absent. In their place wer...

by Drew Martin Before the wayward and speculating Europeans arrived in North America, art on this continent was decorative and ceremonial cr...

by Drew Martin In the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine , René Auberjonois plays the character Odo who is a shape shifter/changeling. The n...

by Drew Martin I just watched Grace Hartigan : Shattering Boundaries . It is a documentary about Hartigan , who was one of the first artists...

by Drew Martin The film Helvetica is a must-see for any graphic designer. A movie about a font may sound painful to sit through but it is c...

by Drew Martin A picture in a magazine caught my eye a couple months ago. It was of a boy lying on the grass with a vacuum cleaner hose arce...

by Drew Martin I saw an interesting movie this weekend called Far From Poland . It was made in 1984 by Jill Godmilow , an American documenta...

by Drew Martin I thumb through a lot of magazines. One of my favorite is Essence because it has a really specific readership and not publis...

by Drew Martin I typically do not write about advertisements and I know better than to succumb to commercial forces but I am sold on the ne...

by Drew Martin On Saturday I ironed my dress shirts to Biutiful , the latest film by Alejandro González Iñárritu , I liked it...I like grit...

By Drew Martin When I was a much younger man, a student, I reasoned that my pursuits of biology and art would be best fulfilled by raising c...