Shrouded with mystery, the cityscapes of Martha Szabo haunt rooftops and skylines —views she saw daily from her penthouse studio. Her stunning paintings range from an early focus on urban geometry to an emerging metaphysical take on that busy, yet unpopulated cloud arena wreathing the tips of skyscrapers.

As Ukraine fights bravely to save its treasured historic monuments from ruin, many are reminded of an earlier crisis in a neighboring country: postwar Hungary, where patriots also rose in protest against Russian domination.

While many consider the greatest art to be those works which thoroughly transport us into a world of the artist’s creation, a less common and often more profound experience arises from art that forces us to reconsider that which we think we already know.