Between Parlors and Oceans
Edward Hopper’s ‘Rooms by the Sea’ captures the psychic tension resulting from conflicting states of mind. The visible ambivalence of the painting is particularly relatable during Covid.
What Does Platonic Form Have to Do with Art?
Photographs stage a confrontation between the idea of an object and its representation, and demonstrate how Form can overwhelm aesthetic pursuit.
Agnes Martin in Coenties Slip
“The work is so far from perfection because we ourselves are so far from perfection … That is why art work is so very hard. It is a working through of disappointments and a growing recognition of failure to the point of defeat. But still one wakes in the morning and there is the inspiration and one goes on.”
Victim of his own intent: On Alvin Feinman
“My ambition, nonetheless, is that someday in the distant future, just one lonely reader will wander the shelves of a library and discover a slim volume of my poetry, taking inspiration from my work in the way I found it in Alvin Feinman’s.”
Fuller Credit
Loïe Fuller is celebrated as one of the founding choreographers of modern dance. Her equally important contributions to cinema have gone unrecognized.
Stuffed
As taxidermy moves from the natural history museum to the art gallery, how should an artist handle the political dilemma of the animal as object?
Letters for Another World
America’s original humorist was a deeply cynical man who censored his most controversial writings.
What Is Aesthetics? An Introduction to ‘The Art of Thinking’
November 10, 2020• Blogging Fellows, Commentary, In-Depth, The Art of Thinking