by Anna Baker Smith
It’s the evening of Palm Sunday, early April and cold, the sky over downtown Amherst dark. Just inside an old stone church, our little choir of twelve is seated in a circle near the heavy wooden doors. On the wall behind us is a marble plaque, with the words of a long-dead parishioner dedicating the bell tower in memory of his now also long-dead wife. Continue reading “Dying for Gesualdo”
by Jennifer Anne Gordon
“Obviously, Doctor,” she said, “you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
It is this line that I think of often, the words of the young Cecelia from Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides. Continue reading “Thirteen Years Old”
Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-sixth issue.
We hope you enjoy these four essays:
“Creating Art in a Burning World” by Emily Withnall
“A Girl, Growing” by MaureenTeresa McCarthy
“My Grief Isn’t Yours” by Lori Tucker-Sullivan
“People of the Sand” by Sue Eisenfeld Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 26 — December 2024”
by Emily Withnall
It took ten minutes to walk from my house to the 2023 Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. It was a chilly April evening. Continue reading “Creating Art in a Burning World: Reckoning with New Mexico’s Largest Wildfire”
by MaureenTeresa McCarthy
Why Mary, I almost said out loud. Of course it’s you. Continue reading “A Girl, Growing”
by Lori Tucker-Sullivan
Though I knew her story, I had never met the writer and artist Suleika Jaouad prior to her art exhibition, The Alchemy of Blood, undertaken with her mother, Anne Francey. Continue reading “My Grief Isn’t Yours”
by Sue Eisenfeld
More than a hundred paintings that debuted on the salon walls of the world’s first impressionist show in 1874 found each other again at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in September 2024. I went to see the show on October 6, the day before October 7, which was the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s murder of 1,139 people in Israel and the hostage-taking of 250 people, and it was roughly halfway between the two holiest days in the Jewish year, during the Days of Awe. Continue reading “People of the Sand”
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 Kinsleigh Hayes
Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 25 — September 2024”
by Matthew E. Henry
In her book Get the Picture, journalist Biana Bosker argues that, among their many obsessions, too many in the art world are invested in finding subtle ways to “Keep out the schmoes.” She would know. Continue reading “Perspective”
by Kristina Moriconi
I do not recall where or how I first discovered Adam Shaw’s paintings and sculptures. But I know it was his painting Harbor Dawn I was drawn to first. Continue reading “The Persistence of Mystery”
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