After the Art – Issue 9 – September 2020

Welcome to After the Art’s ninth issue.

We hope you enjoy these four essays, some of which were written before the pandemic and some during:

“Prose and Passion” by Cheryl Sadowski

“Portrait of a Gentleman” by Helena Feder

“The Ghoul and the Magpie” by David Licata

“In the Grace of the World” by Stephanie Bento

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September 15, 2020

Prose and Passion

by Cheryl Sadowski

Artists and aesthetes may debate whether morning or afternoon light casts a more pleasing shadow, but they are likely to agree it is the marriage of light with mood that creates moments of Grace. Grace delights, transfixes, and seduces. Grace is the dream that buffers us from the bustle and busyness of the external world.

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September 15, 2020

Portrait of a Gentleman

by Helena Feder

He’s never told me his real name, but it’s never mattered.

I call him The Gentleman.

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September 15, 2020

The Ghoul and the Magpie

by David Licata

“I did an experiment with my students,” my friend Stacey said. “I asked them to write whatever they wanted and submit their stories anonymously.”

We were in a café on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where we met two or three times a season for a coffee, a pastry, and a catch-up.

“How’d that turn out?” I asked. Continue reading “The Ghoul and the Magpie” →

September 15, 2020

In the Grace of the World

by Stephanie Bento

In this universal and extraordinary season of human struggle, we long to nourish our souls, to elevate our thoughts from an endless stream of worries, to find some patience in this pause, and to remember our truest selves beyond fear. We crave art.

And yet, never has beauty felt more faraway.

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September 15, 2020

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Portrait of a Gentleman

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