Jaya Howey takes painting very seriously, and so he finds himself in a very serious corner.
Author Archives: Will Heinrich
Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. His novel The King's Evil was published in 2003 and won a PEN/Bingham Fellowship in 2004. Currently he writes about art for the New Yorker and the New York Times.
The Deadly Comedy of the Israeli Border Patrol in the Cave of the Patriarchs
In 1994, an American-born Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshipers in the Cave of the Patriarchs, an ancient building in central Hebron that stands over the putative tomb of Abraham, “father of multitudes.”
Finding Dark Humor in the Plight of the Feminist Artist
In her latest exhibition, Death Is a Conceptual Artist, feminist icon Mira Schor delivers a slow-motion knockout blow.
Searching for the Artist’s Intentions in Suspended, Sculptural Paintings
Someday the ascendant computers — having beaten us at chess, Jeopardy!, and giving directions — may share with the withering human spirit, numbed and narcotized by those same flickering screens, a moment of hideously dreamy half-consciousness.
Two Artists Paint Through Different Philosophies
I don’t know about you, but I experience adulthood as an unremitting crisis of faith, and I look to art for examples of how to better think about what I’m doing.
