Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-fourth issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“The Tragedies of Ecstasy” by Lillian Snortland
“Egon Schiele — Vienna’s Turn of the Century Rock Star” by Beatriz Zimmermann
“Glass Houses” by Dana Delibovi
“Still Light” by Nancy Casciato
by Beatriz Zimmermann
Egon Schiele’s self-portrait, a study in badass attitude if ever there was one, hangs in New York City’s Neue Gallery, an elegant Upper East Side maison that houses one of the greatest collections of early twentieth century Austrian and German art. Continue reading “Egon Schiele – Vienna’s Turn of the Century Rock Star”
by Dana Delibovi
I grew up two towns west of Philip Johnson’s Glass House. Continue reading “Glass Houses”
by Nancy Casciato
We only see what we look at.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
I manage to keep quiet while we order our brownie and coffee, but as soon as we sit down and prop elbows across the tiny museum café table, I blurt out: “She looks just like Girl with a Red Hat!” Continue reading “Still Light”
by Lillian Deja Snortland
Winter of 2024, I find myself standing before Dorothea Tanning’s painting Notes for an Apocalypse at the MoMA in Manhattan. Continue reading “The Tragedies of Ecstasy”
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