Art Review
The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux
The poet turned to psychedelics to discover the nature of his own consciousness, producing inscrutable drawings that alternately vibrate until they blur, or wash gently to and fro.
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet, art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Financial Times, and the Economist, and was a London correspondent for ARTNews.
Art Review
When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.
Art
The Visions of Parmigianino
The artist’s career in Rome was curtailed by the sacking of the city in 1527 by the armies of Charles V but they were so impressed by his visionary painting that they spared his life.
News
Painter Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
The artist rendered portraits and scenes of the streets of north London with a life-affirming spirit and no evidence of frivolousness.
Art
Phyllida Barlow’s Irreverent Objects
The late British artist certainly had no sympathy for the idea — or perhaps the misplaced ideal — of the perfectly crafted sculptural object.
Books
Five Poems for Vincent
What started as a catalog essay about van Gogh’s little-known passion for poetry became a suite of poems for the Dutch painter.
Art
The Artistic Allure of Olympic Athletes
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body sets its focus on issues that emerge from athletes being displayed as heroic on the world’s stage.
Art
How Ukraine Refashioned Modernist Art
In the Eye of the Storm conveys how Ukraine came to be a thriving center of avant-garde art in the early decades of the 20th century.
Art
The Raw Humanity of Henry Moore’s Drawings
Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear.
Art
The Artist Who Cast a Cold Gaze on Flowers
Van Huysum's are not paintings of flowers in all their transience, but flowers of the curious Now, in all their splendid, bullish brilliance.
Art
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Art
Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.