Welcome to After the Art’s thirty-first issue.
We hope you enjoy these five essays:
“Are You Down?” by Kevin Parks
“On the Rocks” by Ellen Santasiero
“Gratitude to Edvard” by Tracy Ross
“Taking a Shot” by Gisèle Laffaye Pansze
“On Having a Body” by Natascha Holenstein
by Kevin Parks
On the final day of Michael Richards’ retrospective “Are You Down?” I was, for a time, the only visitor at The Bronx Museum. Continue reading “Are You Down?”
by Ellen Santasiero
A cave wall lit with dim, natural light. Continue reading “On the Rocks”
by Tracy Ross
It was originally observed that Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter, when he created his masterwork, The Scream, in 1893, 132 years ago, painted the picture by candlelight. Continue reading “Gratitude to Edvard”
by Gisèle Laffaye Pansze
Despite its steel-blue sky and mottled-saffron turf, the oil painting is unassuming, its dimensions approximating a hardcover novel. Continue reading “Taking a Shot”
by Natascha Holenstein
Picture me not as I am now, but as a young girl, sucking the stems of sour grass and weaving the bitten stems in my hair. Continue reading “On Having a Body”
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