The following is an abridged version of an editorial I wrote for American Athenaeum Magazine’s “The Understanders” issue in Winter 2012. The summer before last, a high school friend of my husband, who was also becoming a friend of mine, asked me one night, out of the blue, “How are you so nice to people?” I was surprised by […]
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Call for Submissions: American Athenaeum
American Athenaeum, a new literary journal, is seeking fiction, poetry and essays on a variety of issues.
Animal Images and the Image as Animal: Tricia Cline’s Exiles in Lower Utopia
I recently stumbled upon Tricia Cline’s porcelain sculptures (thank you, art pinners on Pinterest!). Her work has a quality that I tend to (mostly subconsciously) seek out and appreciate in all art forms — an otherworldliness, often lovely, but a little strange, unsettling, maybe creepy, though not in any particularly obvious way. Which is, incidentally, […]
The Magic of Creation: Remedios Varo
A look at Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo and her work.
The Life Acrylic: Alexa Meade’s Painted People
Rather than painting realistic images on canvas, taking surreal photographs, or painting renditions of well-known art on human bodies, 24-year-old Washington, D.C., artist Alexa Meade has brought the three together.
Not the End of Solitude
On the debate concerning the fear of solitude and social media
The Shared Loneliness of Edward Hopper
A look at the paintings of Edward Hopper and existential loneliness.
The Infinite Scream of Nature: The Art of Edvard Munch
Thoughts on the art of Edvard Munch
Nightmares in Oil: The Art of Francis Bacon
Ruminations on the work and person of Francis Bacon
Dreamy and Torrential: The Art of JMW Turner
Notes on JMW Turner and his work