Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-ninth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“What Returns” by Jehanne Dubrow
“Where to Go” by Kennedy Phillips
“Time’s Arrow (Flies in Only One Direction)” by Jenny Apostol
Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 29 – September 2025”
by Sue Eisenfeld
When I arrived at the exhibit, “Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti,” in Washington DC, the National Gallery of Art’s first-ever collection and exhibition of Haitian art in its 88-year history, I came with an expectation —
Revolution. Continue reading “The Opening”
Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-fifth issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“Perspective” by Matthew E. Henry
“The Persistence of Memory” by Kristina Moriconi
“Grandeur and Splendor” by Kimmo Rosenthal
“There is No Dreaming Here” by Liv Albright
Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 25 — September 2024”
Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-second issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“Beautiful Thinking” by Lucille Lorenz
“L’Origine” by Linda Lappin
“Violent, Dark Revolts of Being” by Wes Jamison
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 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”
Welcome to After the Art’s twentieth issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“All That is Light and Air” by Cheryl Sadowski
“Venetian Red and other Fates” by Dian Parker
“The Langlois Bridge at Arles: Love, Life, and Death in the South of France” by Ashley Elizabeth Trotter
“Wild Birds and the Primacy of Place” by Jesse Curran
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 20 – June 2023”
Welcome to After the Art’s nineteeth issue.
We hope you enjoy these two essays:
“Once Upon An Alternate World” by Christy Dena
“The Numinous Amaryllis” by Erin Lyndal Martin
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 19 – March 2023”
Welcome to After the Art’s eighteenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“The Bechers at the Met” by Scott Schomburg
“Counsel to the Wise” by Teresa H. Janssen
“There Are No Words” by Dana Delibovi
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 18 – December 2022”
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