Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-first issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“Dogs of Arizona, Snakes of Isidore” by Caitlin Horrocks
“The Weeping Women” by Esther Fishman
“Enigma in the Sun” by Kimmo Rosenthal
“Entrepot” by Paul Smith
Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 21 – September 2023”
by Caitlin Horrocks
Fifteen years ago, I wandered in to the first American exhibition of paintings by artist Oscar Oiwa. I used to walk periodically through the Arizona State University Art Museum in much the same way I liked to walk through the life sciences building with terrariums embedded in the walls showcasing native snake species: I was a graduate student in writing, and hungry for visual input of any kind that was not a computer screen or a printed page, the inside of a classroom, or the endless taupe streetscapes of Phoenix and Tempe. Continue reading “Dogs of Arizona, Snakes of Isidore”
by Esther Fishman
There they stand, on the top of Bernard Maybeck’s Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Some face out to sea, some would look toward the interior of the building, if they were blessed with faces and the ability to see. They are usually called The Weeping Women. Continue reading “The Weeping Women”
by Kimmo Rosenthal
The Australian author Gerald Murnane has a fascinating description of reading: “The truth of … reading is … the self-evident fact that there is no reader nor subject-matter, only images and feelings in a sort of eternity.” Continue reading “Enigma in the Sun”
by Paul Smith
When I heard there was an exhibit of Vivian Maier’s color photos at the Chicago Historical Museum, I went to see what she had captured on film. Continue reading “Entrepot”
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