by Cheryl Sadowski
Perhaps more than any other season, summer invites drama. Time gathers and thickens with the heat of a late afternoon storm, or a tangy barbecue sauce. The temperature is just right, conditions just so … for a new friendship, an unexpected encounter, an impossible romance. Continue reading “All That Is Light and Air”
by Dian Parker
Henry James wrote fifty novels, twelve plays, many articles and reviews, as well as ten thousand letters. He died in a delirium. Continue reading “Venetian Red and other Fates”
by Ashley Elizabeth Trotter
On a small plot of land in a town just beyond the boundaries of Paris, Vincent van Gogh lies beside his brother, two twin headstones denoting who rests where. The year I turned twenty-one, I visited van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, walked the fields he captured in oil on canvas, touched the threshold of the stone building within which he ended himself. Continue reading “The Langlois Bridge at Arles: Love, Life, and Death in the South of France”
by Jesse Curran
In the summer of 1942, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sat, with coffee and cigarette, drafting The Little Prince. In the window next to his desk, the salty breeze shifted the curtains. Continue reading “Wild Birds and the Primacy of Place”
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”
by Christy Dena
This piece contains major spoilers for the film Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019).
It was 3 January 2020, when I sat in the Astor Theatre to watch Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood. It was actually near the end of the film that I come to you. The film was building up to the Sharon Tate murder that actually did happen on the 8th August, 1969. I felt myself tensing, getting anxious. But … then … it didn’t happen. Continue reading “Once Upon An Alternate World”
by Erin Lyndal Martin
It started with an amaryllis in the dark. My landlord had given me an amaryllis in a little pot, and I’d tossed it in my pantry, unaware that it could grow there. Until I collided with it in a dark hallway. Continue reading “The Numinous Amaryllis”
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”
by Scott Schomburg
Seen from a distance, two small figures stand side by side in the shadow of a tree, co-constructing a view. Continue reading “The Bechers at the Met”
by Teresa H. Janssen
This last summer I camped for several days on the Strait of Juan de Fuca that cuts in from the Pacific to form a natural border between Canada and the northwest coast of the United States. Continue reading “Counsel to the Wise”
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