Mary Daniels

Falls by horses and riders were so frequent, a gentleman attending his first steeplechase at St. James Farm last weekend wondered aloud if he had been invited to a version...

It`s one of the most charming spectacles on the horse world calendar. In early fall, as leaves begin to show manila and maroon against a gas-jet blue sky, matronly mares...

Bobby Washington, 45, is that rare discovery, a true folk artist: His woodcarving has power and spirit, containing in good measure that undefinable something, some element of the artist`s soul,...

Char Wiss claims she is a contemporary nomad, made one by her craft. What she calls her ''nomad baskets'' are made of waxed linen thread wrapped over plastic-covered copper telephone...

`Once you realize you can replicate nature, you feel very powerful,'' says Milena Hughes. ''What you do in the tank it took nature millions of years to do.'' Hughes is...

Prints/Chicago `91, the sixth annual works on paper fair at the Allerton Hotel, is a great place to check out that market, and right now, Japanese color woodblock prints from...

''This was a departure for me,'' says architect Stanley Tigerman, speaking of his latest feat, illustrating a children`s book. ''Dorothy in Dreamland'' is part of Rizzoli`s ''Contemporary Classics'' series. (Others...

Anyone who ever has left home dreams of returning a success. Sculptor Jeff Adams gets to live that fantasy. Adams is making a special homecoming to Oregon, Ill. to show...

''It looks like a convention of butchers,'' joked a spectator watching a number of carriage drivers with heavy plaid wool lap robes or aprons tied around their waists walking the...

A new horizon for artists is an old substance-paper, says Teresa Olabuenaga. ''There are a lot of artists all over the world working with paper and investigating their own paper...