Art
A Painter’s Belief in Painting
Michael Berryhill sees painting as an “amazing place” where the miraculous can still occur.
Weekend
Art
The Emergence of Aubrey Levinthal
What distinguishes Levinthal from her contemporaries is her ability to evoke a melancholic state that has been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Jacob Lawrence's history of the US, interview with the Pence fly, the post-Trump internet, the violence of "dispassionate objectivity," hijacking #ProudBoys, and more.
Books
Marcella Durand's Apocalyptic Pastoral
Durand’s urban environment in The Prospect is a source not of solace but of anxiety.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Dan Walsh
“Twenty years ago, you wouldn’t be caught dead being called a colorist.”
Art
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.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I can’t return to normal. I can’t watch the same life come back. The reptile must be stopped outright.”
Books
Poetry in the Time of a Pandemic
Hank Lazer's COVID19 SUTRAS amounts to a diary of what it is to be alive in the midst of a pandemic and a growing demand for racial justice.
Art
How James Luna Exposed the Mechanisms of American Racism
Luna was preoccupied with self-presentation in a society that, in its pursuit of whiteness, has never been able to recognize Native Americans as individuals.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the story of New York librarian Anne Carroll Moore, the disaster facing NYC restaurants, the rise of anti-Asian bias in the US, the story of a census worker, Uyghur poetry, and more.
Books
Justine Kurland's Female Utopia
In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.
Art
Jan Harrison's Dream Animals
To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others.