Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than ...

After a year of shows that combined folk and self-taught artists (a.k.a. “outsiders”) with M.F.A.-groomed “insiders,” we’re finally starting to recognize quilts as powerfully contemporary artworks.