After the Art – Issue 11 – March 2021

Welcome to After the Art’s eleventh issue.

We hope you enjoy these four essays:

“Searching for memory in Jonathan Borofsky’s I dreamed I asked my father what the matter was and he said his tooth was bleeding and Louise Glück’s ‘Radium'” by Jessica Handler

“A Book, a Painting, a Fountain” by MaureenTeresa McCarthy

“The Man Who Breathed Art” by Karen McCall

“Sparrow Dance Spontaneity” by Stephen O’Connor

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March 9, 2021

Searching for memory in Jonathan Borofsky’s “I dreamed I asked my father what the matter was and he said his tooth was bleeding” and Louise Glück’s “Radium”

by Jessica Handler

My mother and I played a secret game in art museums. What, we would ask the other, is the single piece we would take for our own if such a thing were possible? Continue reading “Searching for memory in Jonathan Borofsky’s “I dreamed I asked my father what the matter was and he said his tooth was bleeding” and Louise Glück’s “Radium”” →

March 9, 2021

A Book, a Painting, a Fountain

by MaureenTeresa McCarthy

As a student in Mexico City, I chanced upon the work of Remedios Varo. I can’t remember where, but the memory is still vivid. The paintings transfixed me, the colors and the texture, the vivid images, the women not of this world.

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March 9, 2021

The Man Who Breathed Art

by Karen McCall

“Art opens up things and moves me toward oceanic feelings of limitlessness. It clearly adds to my existence and offers reparation.” — Janusz Dukszta

It’s been a long lonely winter. My dog died in December, and I have been housebound with a sick husband for months, COVID-19 running in the background like a bad movie. Continue reading “The Man Who Breathed Art” →

March 9, 2021

Sparrow Dance Spontaneity

by Stephen O’Connor

I have always looked forward to welcoming the sparrows to my garden. It is the way they dash off pell-mell into the trees, their small wings beating in a blur of browns and then reappear seconds later, chattering like a boisterous herd that reminds me of Hokusai’s suzume odori or sparrow dance. Continue reading “Sparrow Dance Spontaneity” →

March 9, 2021

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After the Art – Issue 11 – March 2021

Searching for memory in Jonathan Borofsky’s “I dreamed I asked my father what the matter was and he said his tooth was bleeding” and Louise Glück’s “Radium”

A Book, a Painting, a Fountain

The Man Who Breathed Art

Sparrow Dance Spontaneity

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