Art

The photographic character of photographs

by Daniel Silliman March 2, 2011 Art

Photography must be the most self-erasing of arts. The most self-effacing: it makes itself invisible. The texture of photography is invisible and it has an authority that’s so great as to seem not to be an authority, but just to be a natural state. It is just there. Of course we take photographs to be [...]

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Anne Carson’s “Just Hearsay” with Illustrations by Bianca Stone

by Bianca Stone February 16, 2011 Art
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In praise of crazy sculptures

by Daniel Silliman February 1, 2011 Art

I like art museums. I’ve been to the museums and frequented museums in every city I’ve ever spent any time in. Seeing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was like a religious experience, a moment of revelation, and I saw what I never could have seen in the art book reprints and [...]

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Painting Larry Fagin (Plus a Fagin Poem!)

by Simone Kearney January 18, 2011 Art

This entry is part of a series, Paintings of Poets» Entries in this series: Painting Larry Fagin (Plus a Fagin Poem!) Share this: Related Posts The Lost Painting

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Small Anchor Press: The Dory Reader

by Bianca Stone January 3, 2011 Art

If Martha Stewart had a child who went rogue, moved to New York City, and started writing poetry and making books, that child may have turned out to produce something as crafty-bohemian as does. Their carefully assembled chapbooks are often made with hand-marbled paper, complete with twine, stitching, high resolution images, and tiny folded windows [...]

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Aesthete and Propagandist: An Interview with Gene Tanta

by Brooks Lampe December 10, 2010 Aesthetics

In the introduction to you refer to your poems as “ghost sonnets.” Why “ghost sonnets?” And what prompted you to (a) select a definitive form, the sonnet, in which to write the poems and (b) to shave a line off the form? I call them “ghost sonnets” because they’re missing the 14th line of a [...]

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To carve a face

by Daniel Silliman November 1, 2010 Art

To carve a face in wood you must practice. And practice and practice. You must practice eyes, especially, and mouths and noses, though you cannot think of them that way. Think only of the wood and the edge of the knife and of shapes. You must break the face into pieces, in how you think [...]

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Andrei Tarkovsky and the Visionary Experience

by Stewart K. Lundy October 31, 2010 Art

Ingmar Bergman called Tarkovsky, “the greatest.” It’s hard to argue with Bergman. While Tarkovsky is not a well-enough known director, this is probably just as well because virtually anything popular becomes bastardized. Tarkovsky will probably never be “popular” simply because of the interminable length and oppressive mood of his films. Tarkovsky created most of his [...]

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Hamlet and his (Public) Problems

by Micah Towery May 28, 2010 Art

has an excellent radio show called , which is surprisingly high brow stuff. In particular, Ideas has been running a series based on . has been tracing for listeners the origin of the modern public. It’s worth listening to from the beginning, but if you’re short on time, the last three episodes on Dutch painting, [...]

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Poem Thing

by Bianca Stone April 26, 2010 Art
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Incantations: Michael S. Harper, A Love Supreme

by Micah Towery April 13, 2010 African American

NOTE: In lieu of Grossman today, I’m posting a short essay I wrote on Michael S. Harper’s poem for one of my classes back at . Listen to the following as you read: It is almost impossible to read Michael S. Harper and not feel as though you are missing out on some sort of [...]

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Fashion Correspondent: Rodarte

by Stuart Krimko February 1, 2010 Art

We all have fantasy careers. I’ve always thought it would be great to be an Off-Broadway actor. I would invite my cohorts over to my Hell’s Kitchen apartment after a weeknight show, and we would drink Powers whisky and smoke cigarettes until the wee hours; mornings would be slow, slightly hazy, and then during the [...]

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