Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-seventh issue.
We hope you enjoy these five essays:
“Inaccurate Silence” by Darryl Whetter
“Under the Tuscan Rain” by Marianne Rogoff
“The Unlikely Sublime: Fragonard’s Blindman’s Buff” by Daniel Barbiero
“Dying for Gesualdo” by Anna Baker Smith
“Thirteen Years Old” by Jennifer Anne Gordon

After the Art publishes personal essays that explore the ways reading and art enrich each other.
If you’re interested in submitting, please read our guidelines.