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 Esther Fishman
There they stand, on the top of Bernard Maybeck’s Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Some face out to sea, some would look toward the interior of the building, if they were blessed with faces and the ability to see. They are usually called The Weeping Women. Continue reading “The Weeping Women”
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”
by Paul Smith
When I heard there was an exhibit of Vivian Maier’s color photos at the Chicago Historical Museum, I went to see what she had captured on film. Continue reading “Entrepot”
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”
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”
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