Young Sun Han’s art explores sometimes painful, sometimes revelatory aspects of his family’s narrative and Korean history more generally.
Carl Little
Carl Little’s most recent book is Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: Closer to Nature (Pomegranate). He helped produce the film Jon Imber’s Left Hand, which premieres at the Maine Jewish Film Festival in March. He lives on Mount Desert Island.
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The Machine Aesthetic in George Rickey’s Sculptures
Belinda Rathbone’s biography traces the sculptor’s embrace of kinetic mechanisms to his work in the Singer Sewing Machine factory.
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David Driskell’s Wheel of Action
A retrospective pays homage to the pioneering artist and curator, who passed away last year.
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Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
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Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
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An Artist Who Lived to Paint
Jon Imber, who succumbed to ALS in 2014, emulated Guston, de Kooning, and others while developing a provocative and personal vision of figure and landscape.
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Anne Neely’s Ethical Abstractions
Neely has created paintings that respond to some of the major issues of the day: climate change, environmental water loss, and immigration.
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A Poet Defends the Earth
Susan Barba’s poems are both environmental plea and protest, at once personal and broad.
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Two Aboriginal Artists Pay Tribute to Their Homeland
A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source in the works of Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson. “They’re all signs of ancestral action.”
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A Poet Takes Up Biography
Baron Wormser offers empathetic but unflinching portraits of a diverse group of historical figures.
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An Artist Looks Hard at Painful Images
Diana Cherbuliez’s Trigger Warning looks at our society, where disasters occur on a regular basis and are fodder for our cultural anxieties and voyeurism.
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Extraordinary Paintings of Ordinary Birds
Ann Craven’s painted birds, set against a soft-focus background, have a kitsch quality, but with a provocative edge.