Welcome to After the Art’s thirty-third issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“A Bibliophile Visits Pieter Meijer Warnars’ Bookshop” by Craig J. Saper
“What the Stories Leave Out: Intimacy and Incarceration” by Kellie Edson
“Henry Moore Got to Me in a Round-About Way” by Joan Boxall
“A Museum of One’s Own” by Amanda G. Brandt
Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 33 — September 2026”
by Craig J. Saper
One day I visited Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum very early in the morning intending to take pictures of people desperately trying to be first in line to look at paintings. Continue reading “A Bibliophile Visits Pieter Meijer Warnars’ Bookshop”
by Kellie Edson
When I first watched Orange Is the New Black I was in a late summer haze the year that it first came out, a paper bag at my side, perpetually nauseous, pregnant with my first daughter. I had no context of what it was like to be in jail or prison nor did I have a grasp on my actual sexuality. Which – spoiler alert – isn’t straight. Continue reading “What the Stories Leave Out: Intimacy and Incarceration”
by Joan Boxall
Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure 1951 hit me in all its plaster-and-string splendor. Continue reading “Henry Moore Got to Me in a Round-About Way”
by Amanda G. Brandt
My first reaction when I read that the Louvre was embarking on renovations that would allow the Mona Lisa her own room was to roll my eyes. Hard. Continue reading “A Museum of One’s Own”
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”
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