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”
by Emily Pulfer-Terino
Writing, I compose myself. To learn what’s on my mind, I write. My self is made of questions and reflections, poses and expressions. Words, tones and pitches. Gestures of paint. Continue reading “Both Sides Now”
Welcome to After the Art’s sixteenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“The Mechanics of Quilting” by Melissa J. Elbaum
“Interiors” by Kimmo Rosenthal
“Day 3 Madrid” by Adam Berlin
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 16 — June 2022”
by Melissa J. Elbaum
My beloved grandmother was a prolific quilter. In her one-hundred-eight-and-a-half years, she quilted thirty masterpieces. Her quilts mirror the full color spectrum, fashioning measurements of energy into intricate geometrical patterns. If the material is examined carefully, hints of her life appear. Continue reading “The Mechanics of Quilting”
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