Art
Weekend Words: Seventy
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
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Books
Reader’s Diary: John Mullan’s ‘Anonymity’
In case you were wondering, no, it was not by oversight that I didn’t bother to mention, when writing last week about Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the recent brouhaha about the violation of Ferrante’s privacy.
Art
Where to Next?
For a poet who is notorious for writing opaque poems, a number of collages celebrate the youthful male body with an innocence that is touching, tender, and, frankly, poignant, and sweet.
Art
And you can send me dead flowers every morning…
It is the beginning of a new year and for some reason I have been thinking about flower paintings — perhaps prompted by the flower paintings that Edouard Manet made while he was dying.
Art
The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler Yeats
Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
Art
With Extreme Prejudice: David Guinn’s Night Room
For Night Room, David Guinn treated the two rooms in the gallery as different parts of the mind.
Art
Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
Sometimes a single, simple pictorial device is all it takes to set your work apart.
Books
Hard Looking: Proust and Gauguin on Art
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt's use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.
Comics
Serve It
2017 requires some change.
Art
An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books
Samuel Levi Jones uses books to raise questions about how history is remade and repurposed for the present and future.
Art
The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings
The ex-voto painting is a Catholic folk art tradition depicting individual misfortunes that were mollified by divine intervention.
Announcement
Currents Pull Artists 'Due South' to Sicily
Thirty-eight international artists cross boundaries to reveal insider and outsider perspectives on Sicily, January 28-April 30, 2017 at The Delaware Contemporary.