An Australian in Paris who let the 2015 terrorist attacks force him to question whether abstraction could be justified at all — and came out the other side with a practice built on dissent. Anthony White talks Kiefer, Foucault, the Gilets Jaunes, Rosa Parks, and why the most important thing he can tell you is: be kind.

He told himself to stop painting the horizon. That decision led to shapes that represent nothing yet mean everything — upright rectangles with missing corners, silly pink shapes with black patches, cardboard from old packaging boxes treated until it becomes art. A conversation with Zaltbommel's quietly rebellious minimalist, Kees van de Wal.

She entered college as a government major, changed her mind, and eventually found her way to an old factory building in Charlotte NC with the most beautiful musty light. Debora Koo paints cakes and love stories — and she just got married. A new chapter is beginning.