Welcome to After the Art’s nineteeth issue.
We hope you enjoy these two essays:
“Once Upon An Alternate World” by Christy Dena
“The Numinous Amaryllis” by Erin Lyndal Martin
We’ve also started a Facebook page, which you can follow for posts about future issues as well as exhibits, articles, books, essays, and sites that might be of interest. Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 19 – March 2023”
by Christy Dena
This piece contains major spoilers for the film Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019).
It was 3 January 2020, when I sat in the Astor Theatre to watch Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood. It was actually near the end of the film that I come to you. The film was building up to the Sharon Tate murder that actually did happen on the 8th August, 1969. I felt myself tensing, getting anxious. But … then … it didn’t happen. Continue reading “Once Upon An Alternate World”
by Erin Lyndal Martin
It started with an amaryllis in the dark. My landlord had given me an amaryllis in a little pot, and I’d tossed it in my pantry, unaware that it could grow there. Until I collided with it in a dark hallway. Continue reading “The Numinous Amaryllis”
Welcome to After the Art’s eighteenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“The Bechers at the Met” by Scott Schomburg
“Counsel to the Wise” by Teresa H. Janssen
“There Are No Words” by Dana Delibovi
We’ve also started a Facebook page, which you can follow for posts about future issues as well as exhibits, articles, books, essays, and sites that might be of interest. Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 18 – December 2022”
by Scott Schomburg
Seen from a distance, two small figures stand side by side in the shadow of a tree, co-constructing a view. Continue reading “The Bechers at the Met”
by Teresa H. Janssen
This last summer I camped for several days on the Strait of Juan de Fuca that cuts in from the Pacific to form a natural border between Canada and the northwest coast of the United States. Continue reading “Counsel to the Wise”
by Dana Delibovi
In 1913, three years before he died a soldier in the First World War, Franz Marc (b. 1880) painted Tierschicksale. Continue reading “There Are No Words”
Welcome to After the Art’s seventeenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“Tigers” by Amy Bowers
“Joy in the Finding” by Stephen J. West
“Both Sides Now” by Emily Pulfer-Terino
We’ve also started a Facebook page, which you can follow for posts about future issues as well as exhibits, articles, books, essays, and sites that might be of interest. Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 17 — September 2022”
by Amy Bowers
The glowing computer screen commands my focus at 5 a.m. as I teach international middle school students literature. This week we are reading “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (1951) by Adrienne Rich and I am trying to prod my students to say what the tigers in Aunt Jennifer’s needlework might represent. They have no idea. Continue reading “Tigers”
by Stephen J. West
“There!” I stepped to the side of the path and stopped. I thrust my hand toward the top of a building a few blocks east of 10th Avenue. There: a water tower: hunkered on the rooftop: the shallow angle of its conical roof: the earthy shake of its shingles: the rusted belts cinched around its driftwood trunk: the rickety steel frame perched discretely above the storefronts that sizzled with traffic along the street below. Continue reading “Joy in the Finding”
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