Welcome to After the Art’s fifteenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“Unpredictable and Inevitable” by Dian Parker
“Scenes of Ourselves” by Beth Cleary
“The Art of Being” by Tayna Mykhaylychenko
“The Veiled Lady” by Brooke White
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 15 — March 2022”
by Dian Parker
In the 1400s the artist Piero della Francesca moved from town to town in Italy dodging the bubonic plague. And yet, he still kept painting. So who am I to rant about COVID and its variants restricting my travel plans? Continue reading “Unpredictable and Inevitable”
by Beth Cleary
In the painting, old men gather in a dim room. They are close, but look past each other. Continue reading “Scenes of Ourselves”
by Tanya Mykhaylychenko
I discovered Hakuin Ekaku’s poem “The Monkey is Reaching” in a thin Zen Koan book I picked up at The Word bookstore in Montreal, shortly before leaving the city. Continue reading “The Art of Being”
by Brooke White
The distracted camera blurs the scene then focuses on the bust of Darcy, who has been watching as we take a turn about the room. Continue reading “The Veiled Lady”
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