Welcome to After the Art’s thirty-second issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“Where Memory Moves through the Body” by Sally Brown
“Painting the Duende in Marylebone” by David Berridge
“Just Below the Surface of the Water” by JoLynn Powers
“Temptation: Indelibly Arrested, Permanently Alive” by G. Sabbatini
by Sally Brown
I found Holly Wong’s Lamp of Memory 1 late at night, scrolling through her website. For some reason, this piece stopped me. Not because I understood it, but because it felt familiar, bodily. Continue reading “Where Memory Moves through the Body”
by David Berridge
If I sat next to the painter Walter Sickert, in a London music hall in 1887, I might get distracted. Continue reading “Painting the Duende in Marylebone”
by JoLynn Powers
Andrew Wyeth’s wind-swept coastal landscapes have captivated me for most of my adult life. Continue reading “Just Below the Surface of the Water”
by G. Sabbatini
Sometime in the late 1970s, my Italian grandmother, a lifelong student of the arts who immigrated to the United States as an adult, was shipped a crate of antique furniture and paintings from Naples. Continue reading “Temptation: Indelibly Arrested, Permanently Alive”
Welcome to After the Art’s thirty-first issue.
We hope you enjoy these five essays:
“Are You Down?” by Kevin Parks
“On the Rocks” by Ellen Santasiero
“Gratitude to Edvard” by Tracy Ross
“Taking a Shot” by Gisèle Laffaye Pansze
“On Having a Body” by Natascha Holenstein
by Kevin Parks
On the final day of Michael Richards’ retrospective “Are You Down?” I was, for a time, the only visitor at The Bronx Museum. Continue reading “Are You Down?”
by Ellen Santasiero
A cave wall lit with dim, natural light. Continue reading “On the Rocks”
by Tracy Ross
It was originally observed that Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter, when he created his masterwork, The Scream, in 1893, 132 years ago, painted the picture by candlelight. Continue reading “Gratitude to Edvard”
by Gisèle Laffaye Pansze
Despite its steel-blue sky and mottled-saffron turf, the oil painting is unassuming, its dimensions approximating a hardcover novel. Continue reading “Taking a Shot”
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