Art

Untitled – When I put my hands on your body, Wojnarowicz, 1990 “There are so many strangers crying in England these days…” Filmmaker Derek Jarman says in his classic memoir,…

SELF, 1987 Crime and Punishment, the title of Peter Saul’s retrospective at the New Museum, is fitting. His art is all culpability and implication, no restorative justice, hardly even a…

The Poetry Vlog is nurturing a community of poets in ways that has never been done before. I had the chance to sit down and chat with poet, scholar, and…

May Picture, Paul Klee, 1925 . . . the act and the potential in the space of the event, in the event-ness of the event. —Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx…

LAUREN BARNETT is a comic artist and painter. She’s been posting a new comic every day for over 12 years (now on Instagram ) and has a bunch of books…

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel The Elder, 1563 Thomas Bernhard isn’t the subject of this essay. His style is—the tools he employs; the repetition; the bizarre speech markers; the…

            NANCE VAN WINCKEL is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Our Foreigner, winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Series Prize (Beyond Baroque…

Burnt Umber and Ultramarine, 1989 I The initial feeling is one of recognition, then puzzlement. You feel as if you have come across these images before—in another museum, perhaps, or…

  Pam Wye is an artist, educator, mom, swimmer. Her graphic history entitled “In the Midst of It All” was recently published in Spiralbound on Medium. Her graphic-memoir-in-progress, “Water I’ve…

The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo, 1944 It’s difficult to write about someone else’s pain. There is a risk of sounding insensitive, of making assumptions, of projecting your own interpretations. I…

As I was obsessing about sweet Arthur Fleck and super-hot Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, like many others, I started following online all of those thousand social media groups posting a thousand…

Atop a white pedestal near the rear of David B. Smith Gallery’s main exhibition space sits a pink 13” x 13” x 13” cube. The artwork, titled “How many Pinkie…

Yesterday afternoon I entered the Nitehawk Cinema out of respite from the first day of New York winter to catch an early showing of Bong Joon-Ho’s new film Parasite. I…

Margaret Neumann, What You Want Georgia, my then 6-year-old daughter, and I clip on earrings and head to the Dior: From Paris to the World show at the Denver Art…